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  • Bibliography:
    33 Books (8 Series)
  • First Book:
    August 1990
  • Latest Book:
    September 2009
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About the Author

Born Christopher Robin Nicole on 7 December 1930 in Georgetown, Guyana, was raised in the Caribbean. His education included: the Queen's College in Guyana; the Harrison College in Barbados; and was fellow by the Canadians Bankers Association. On 8 May 1982, Christopher married with the also writer Diana Bachmann, they collabored under the pseudonym Max Marlow. With two sons and two daughters, they live in Guernsey, Channel Islands.

A romantic and passionate of history, he has been published since 1957 as Christopher Nicole, and continues to write into the 21st century with no intention of retiring, he also used several pseudonyms, some of there female, that includes: 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.

Full Series List in Order

Balkan Saga

1 - Partisan (Nov-2001)
2 - Murder's Art (Aug-2002)
3 - Battleground (Feb-2003)
4 - The Killing Ground (Aug-2003)

Commando

1 - Commando (Jul-1999)
2 - The Cause (Jun-2000)
3 - The Tiger (Jul-1999)

The Eight Banners

1 - The Eight Banners (Jul-1992)
2 - The Last Bannerman (Jun-1993)

Eleanor of Aquitaine Saga

1 - Eleanor of Aquitaine (Feb-1995)
2 - Queen of Love (Aug-1995)

French Resistance

1 - Resistance (Nov-2003)
2 - The Game of Treachery (Aug-2004)
3 - Legacy of Hate (Nov-2004)
4 - The Brightest Day (May-2005)

Hon. Duncan Morant Naval Thrillers

1 - Storm Warning (Feb-2008)
2 - The Flowing Tide (Jul-2008)
3 - The Calm and the Storm (Jan-2009)
4 - The Vortex (Jun-2009)

R.A.F.

1 - Blue Yonder (Mar-2006)
2 - Death in the Sky (Aug-2006)
3 - Spiralling Down (Feb-2007)
4 - The Whirlwind (Aug-2007)

The Sword

1 - The Sword and the Scalpel (Mar-1996)
2 - The Sword and the Jungle (Sep-2009)
3 - The Sword and the Prison (Dec-1997)
4 - Stop Rommel! (Jan-2000)
5 - The Afrika Korps (May-1999)
6 - The Traitor Within (Nov-1999)

Book List in Order: 33 titles

  • Ottoman

    In 1448 an English master-gunner, John Hawkwood, arrives in Constantinople. He intends to enter the service of the Byzantine Emperor, whose capital is this astonishing meeting place of East and West - now in dire threat from the Ottoman Turks. But...

  • Moghul

    In 1524 Sir Thomas Blunt and his young cousin reach Goa in search of the fabled kingdom of Prester John. Instead, they discover an exotic and capricious land whose wealth far exceeds their wildest dreams. But in Delhi the Blunts incur the displeas...

  • The Eight Banners

    The Eight Banners - 1

    The first of a two-book sequence of adventure in the Chinese Empire of the Manchu Dynasty. In 1793 Robert Barrington, a young mariner, founds a trading house in Peking. Running parallel to the rise of the Barringtons are momentous events in Chines...

  • Queen of the Night

    Heart-wrenching historical romance: the untold story of Queen Joanna I of Naples The year is 1338 and Richilde Benoit and her siblings have set sail to Rome on a family trip. But when their vessel is captured by pirates, Richilde’s family i...

  • The Last Bannerman

    The Eight Banners - 2

  • Queen of Lions

    England, 1445. When the beautiful Margaret of Anjou marries King Henry VI of England, she is a virgin who longs for love, power, wealth, and a son. After arriving in England she learns that her deeply religious and delicate husband is unwilli...

  • Eleanor of Aquitaine

    Eleanor of Aquitaine Saga - 1

    A historical romance in which, due to circumstances beyond her control, Eleanor, heiress to the Duchy of Aquitaine finds herself transformed, from an innocent thirteen year old girl to being the Queen of France. From the author of QUEEN OF LIONS. Wri...

  • Queen of Love

    Eleanor of Aquitaine Saga - 2

    A historical romance about the marriage of Eleanor of Aquitaine and Henry II, and of her relations with her ten children, including Kings Richard and John....

  • The Sword and the Scalpel

    The Sword - 1

    The first in a planned series of military sagas which follows the fortunes of the Brand family and its involvement in the British Army. Harry Brand fails medical school in 1935 and takes himself off to Ethiopia, to serve as a medical orderly with a ...



  • The Sword and the Prison

    The Sword - 3

    Germany, 1940. Badly wounded and a prisoner of war after the fall of France, Major Hector Brand is nursed back to health in the Von Pattens' family home rather than a prison hospital. A family as famous in German military history as are the Brands in...

  • The Afrika Korps

    The Sword - 5

    Cairo, June 1942. The Afrika Corps, apparently beaten out of sight at the end of 1941, has now counter-attacked, and even the long-held sally port of Tobruk has fallen. The British are desperate - the only way to win the war in North Africa is to eli...

  • Commando

    Commando - 1

    Harry Curtis is one of those plucked from the Dunkirk beach in June 1940. Wounded and disillusioned, his sole aim is to get back to the Army and hit back against the Nazis. Harry is invited to join an elite regiment, known as the Commandos....

  • The Tiger

    Commando - 3

    As World War II draws to a close, Commando Major Harry Curtis has returned to England to fame and fortune. But after his marriage sours, he's only too happy to be given the most dangerous assignment of his career. He survives with the help of an Aust...

  • The Traitor Within

    The Sword - 6

    Sicily, 1943. After the glorious victory at El Alamein, John Warrey's military record boasts an enviable string of accolades -- even praise from Monty himself. Which is why British Intelligence cannot afford to let him go to waste -- particularly whe...

  • Stop Rommel!

    The Sword - 4

    Egypt, 1939. When John Warrey agrees to act as a navigator for a trans-Saharan expedition led by the photographer Margo Cartwright. After training back in England, John returns to Cairo to spy on Il Duce's men, what began as a fun adventure ends in a...

  • The Cause

    Commando - 2

    Harry Curtis is one of the lucky few to escape from a top secret raid gone wrong on St Nazaire - resulting in horrific carnage - and anyone might believe that he deserves a rest. But in wartime nobody takes a break for long, and he is soon back in th...

  • Partisan

    Balkan Saga - 1

    In the spring of 1941 Yugoslavia, hitherto neutral, finds itself at war with Germany as the pro-Nazi government is overthrown and replaced by a pro-allied administration.

    The staff at the British Embassy make hasty plans to leave the country, but o...

  • Murder's Art

    Balkan Saga - 2

    Autumn 1941: when General von Blintoft's wife is killed by a sniper's bullet meant for himself, it sparks a vendetta against Tony Davis, the legendary English officer, and his mistress. When the Germans attack the town of Uzize, Tony and Croat Genera...

  • Battleground

    Balkan Saga - 3

    In the spring of 1942 the Nazi-German forces occupying Yugoslavia determine to destroy the partisan army of General Tito once and for all. Unable to withstand the vastly superior forces launched against him, Tito evacuates the town and leads his peop...



  • The Killing Ground

    Balkan Saga - 4

    Spring 1943 and the Nazis determine to make an all-out effort to exterminate General Tito's partisans. Arch enemy of Tito's lieutenant, Tony Davis, Wassermann is determined to avenge past defeats and captures Tony's pregnant girlfriend. But can Tony ...

  • Resistance

    French Resistance - 1

    On 9 May 1940 the happy-go-lucky Captain James Barron, serving as an intelligence officer in Flanders, attends the wedding of a prosperous French wine merchant's daughter in the city of Chartres. But when he awakes the next morning he learns that the...

  • The Game of Treachery

    French Resistance - 2

    The second in the French Resistance series
    Resistance to the Nazi forces occupying France is growing, and the Germans begin to counter-attack. Their principle target is the group headed by the beautiful Liane de Gruchy, and they infiltrate one of ...

  • Legacy of Hate

    French Resistance - 3

    The third in the French Resistance series
    In Nazi-occupied France, the assassination of a new German commandant by Amalie de Gruchy sparks a crisis in both Nazi Germany and the British secret service.
    Supposedly killed in a raid a few months p...

  • The Brightest Day

    French Resistance - 4

    D-Day 1944. The fourth in the French Resistance series As the preparations for the invasion of France in June 1944 move into high gear, the French Resistance is required to increase activities against the German infrastructure. Leading her group into...

  • Blue Yonder

    R.A.F. - 1

    A family drama encompassing both world wars. Having earned a medal at the Battle of the Somme in 1916, Sergeant Mark Bayley, 4th Hussars, is posted back to England and volunteers for the Royal Flying Corps, becoming an ace with 23 'kills' to his cre...

  • Death in the Sky

    R.A.F. - 2

    The second instalment in the thrilling RAF series, continuing the saga of the Bayley family Following the surrender of France in 1940, Nazi Germany begins to plan the invasion of Great Britain ? for which it needs complete air superiority. Thus the L...

  • Spiralling Down

    R.A.F. - 3

    The third novel in the thrilling RAF series depicting the saga of the Bayley brothers. Opting for his mother's nationality before World War II started, Max Bayley has become one of Germany's leading fighter pilots, even if he abhors much of the Nazi...

  • The Whirlwind

    R.A.F. - 4

    The fourth novel in the Second World War saga of the Bayley brothers. In the winter of 1942, it is the job of the youthful General Max Bayley, son of an English RAF World War I ace and a German mother, to protect transport planes dropping supplies t...

  • Storm Warning

    Hon. Duncan Morant Naval Thrillers - 1

    In August 1939, the Honorable Duncan Morant, only son and heir of the second Lord Eversham, is enjoying life as a man-about-town, and skippering his racing schooner Kristin. But he is also a sub-lieutenant in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, and as...



  • The Flowing Tide

    Hon. Duncan Morant Naval Thrillers - 2

    With France having fallen, by 1941 the Germans control every French port, turning the English Channel into a battleground where vast numbers of German Schnell-boats frequently clash horns with the handful of British MTBs charged with the responsibili...

  • The Calm and the Storm

    Hon. Duncan Morant Naval Thrillers - 3

    This is an Honourable Duncan Morant naval thriller. By the end of 1941, the war has become global, but for Britain the focal point of the struggle is the island of Malta, an essential halfway house for convoys from Gibraltar to Alexandria as well as...

  • The Vortex

    Hon. Duncan Morant Naval Thrillers - 4

    An Honourable Duncan Morant naval thriller... "The Vortex" brings the saga of Duncan Lord Eversham and Jamie Goring to a gripping climax. Seriously wounded in an engagement in the Channel, Jamie is hospitalized for several months, during which he mee...

  • The Sword and the Jungle

    The Sword - 2

    Having escaped from Singapore the day before it fell to the Japanese, Captain Harry Brand and his wife, Constance, seek refuge in Burma, their personal lives as chaotic as the disasters with which they are surrounded. When Burma is invaded, Constance...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Alan Savage has published 33 books.

Alan Savage does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Sword and the Jungle, was published in September 2009.

The first book by Alan Savage, Ottoman, was published in August 1990.

Yes. Alan Savage has 8 series.
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