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The Borodins #4
Hope and Glory
A WORLD AT WAR-
A GENERATION IN LOVE-
A GRORIOUS SAGA CONTINUES!
Germany had dreamed a madman's dream. Storm clouds had gathered over the globe. And two pairs of lovers prayed that their private hopes would not be crushed in the clash of nations at war. JOHN HAYMAN-the spoiled young American struggling to live up to the glory of his aristocratic Borodin blood, at last coming of age with the resistance fighters in the frozen forests of the Pripet. NATASHA BRUSILOVAthe famed dancer who was John's innocent bride-to-be, fighting shoulder-to-shoulder with him against the Nazi invaders. SVETLANA NEJthe fragile, golden-haired Borodin beauty who had vowed to love a man fated to be her enemy. PAUL VON HASSELL the dashing S.S. Captain. For Svetlana's sake, he would raise his hand against the Fuhrer himself...
A GENERATION IN LOVE-
A GRORIOUS SAGA CONTINUES!
Germany had dreamed a madman's dream. Storm clouds had gathered over the globe. And two pairs of lovers prayed that their private hopes would not be crushed in the clash of nations at war. JOHN HAYMAN-the spoiled young American struggling to live up to the glory of his aristocratic Borodin blood, at last coming of age with the resistance fighters in the frozen forests of the Pripet. NATASHA BRUSILOVAthe famed dancer who was John's innocent bride-to-be, fighting shoulder-to-shoulder with him against the Nazi invaders. SVETLANA NEJthe fragile, golden-haired Borodin beauty who had vowed to love a man fated to be her enemy. PAUL VON HASSELL the dashing S.S. Captain. For Svetlana's sake, he would raise his hand against the Fuhrer himself...
- GenresRomance
386 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published April 1, 1982
About the author
Leslie Arlen
9 books4 followersChristopher Robin Nicole was born on 7 December 1930 in Georgetown, British Guiana (now Guyana), where he was raised. He is the son of Jean Dorothy (Logan) and Jack Nicole, a police officer, both Scottish. He studied at Queen's College in Guyana and at Harrison College in Barbados. He was a fellow at the Canadian Bankers Association and a clerk for the Royal Bank of Canada in Georgetown and Nassau from 1947 to 1956. In 1957, he moved to Guernsey, Channel Islands, United Kingdom, where he currently lives, but he also has a domicile in Spain.
On 31 March 1951, he married his first wife, Jean Regina Amelia Barnett, with whom he had two sons, Bruce and Jack, and two daughters, Julie and Ursula, they divorced. On 8 May 1982 he married for the second time with fellow writer Diana Bachmann.
As a romantic and passionate of history, Nicole has been published since 1957, when he published a book about West Indian Cricket. He published his first novel in 1959 with his first stories set in his native Caribbean. Later he wrote many historical novels set mostly in tumultuous periods like World War I, World War II and the Cold War, and depict places in Europe, Asia and Africa. He also wrote classic romance novels. He specialized in Series and Sagas, and continues to write into the 21st century with no intention of retiring.
He signs his books as Christopher Nicole and uses several pseudonyms, some of them female. Pseudonyms used include: Peter Grange, Andrew York, Robin Cade, Mark Logan, Christina Nicholson, Alison York, Leslie Arlen, Robin Nicholson, C. R. Nicholson, Daniel Adams, Simon McKay, Caroline Gray and Alan Savage. He wrote disaster thrillers in collaboration with his wife, Diana Bachmann, under the penname Max Marlow. Under his different pseudonyms he has worked with many publishing houses: Jarrolds, Hutchinson, Simon & Schuster, Coward-McCann & Geoghegan, Jove, Michael Joseph, Mills & Boon, and Severn House.
On 31 March 1951, he married his first wife, Jean Regina Amelia Barnett, with whom he had two sons, Bruce and Jack, and two daughters, Julie and Ursula, they divorced. On 8 May 1982 he married for the second time with fellow writer Diana Bachmann.
As a romantic and passionate of history, Nicole has been published since 1957, when he published a book about West Indian Cricket. He published his first novel in 1959 with his first stories set in his native Caribbean. Later he wrote many historical novels set mostly in tumultuous periods like World War I, World War II and the Cold War, and depict places in Europe, Asia and Africa. He also wrote classic romance novels. He specialized in Series and Sagas, and continues to write into the 21st century with no intention of retiring.
He signs his books as Christopher Nicole and uses several pseudonyms, some of them female. Pseudonyms used include: Peter Grange, Andrew York, Robin Cade, Mark Logan, Christina Nicholson, Alison York, Leslie Arlen, Robin Nicholson, C. R. Nicholson, Daniel Adams, Simon McKay, Caroline Gray and Alan Savage. He wrote disaster thrillers in collaboration with his wife, Diana Bachmann, under the penname Max Marlow. Under his different pseudonyms he has worked with many publishing houses: Jarrolds, Hutchinson, Simon & Schuster, Coward-McCann & Geoghegan, Jove, Michael Joseph, Mills & Boon, and Severn House.
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November 11, 2010
buenisimo, gracias a este libro me di cuenta que amo leer y mas cuando de historia se trata, me impacto enterarme de como fue para rusia todo el asunto al cambio de la monarquia al socialismo...
October 26, 2021
Empezó lento, pero fue agarrando vuelo.
October 21, 2025
Bueno, bueno, bueno…¡vamos por el 5o de la saga!
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