Showing The Scarlet Generation by Christopher Nicole

Russia, 1941.

Nazi Germany has invaded Communist Russia, sparking the most ferocious and destructive conflict in the history of the world.

Caught up in this cataclysmic struggle of hatred and heroism are the surviving members of the Bolugayevski family:

Alexei, an American doctor, volunteers for medical duty in Russian hospitals when the war begins taking his girlfriend Elaine with him, before meeting up with his long lost relative Tatiana.

Tatiana, Jennie’s daughter, last in the female line, and brought up to be a dedicated Communist, is caught behind the enemy lines, and becomes a wanted murderer, destined to become a famous partisan commander.

Joseph Cromb, who survived twelve years in the Gulag Archipelago, returns as a member of an American fact-finding mission, only to become more involved than he would have thought possible...

Priscilla Bolugayevska-Cromb, still calling herself Princess Dowager of Bolugayen, who plunges headlong into the corrupt and vicious society of the Kremlin.

And Sonia Bolugayevska, Trotsky's mistress, who dreams only of revenge.

Meanwhile, amongst the Nazis is Anna, now married to Alexander Von Holzbach. She is desperate for revenge on any member of the Russian group behind her brother and lover’s death which includes Tatiana. But with a mother who is both Jewish and associated with communists, will she even be safe in Nazi Germany?

In the cauldron of war-torn Soviet Russia, these memorable characters are hurled against each other, to love and to hate, to kill and to die, and, for some, to conquer.

‘The Scarlet Generation’ follows, ‘The Red Gods’, ‘The Red Tide’, ‘The Seeds of Power’ and ‘The Masters ‘in The Russian Saga, depicting the overturn of Russian Society during the hundred years between 1853 and 1953.

Praise for Christopher Nicole:

‘…military saga covering the years from the Boer War through WW I. Bosoms still heave and legs still flash, but they're background colour in the story of Murdoch Mackinder and his career in the family regiment’ – Kirkus Review [on The Regiment]

‘Well-researched…Evocative descriptions of scenery and edifices, and exact period dialogue’ – Historical Novels Society

Christopher Nicole (born 1930) was brought up in British Guyana and the West Indies. He was a prolific historical writer, both under his own name and pennames. His books include 'The Command', 'The Regiment' and 'Sword of Fortune'.

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