Though fiction, The Triptych is firmly based on incidents in the lives of three ordinary men from the Hall family. Spanning nearly a century, this vivid narrative interweaves the fates of three generations caught in the tumult of three key historical events: the 1855 Siege of Sebastopol during the Crimean War; the Expedition to rescue General Gordon in 1884-85; and the fierce Dodecanese Campaign of 1943.
While these stories form the triptych of the title, they are linked via the fate of a second triptych: an imaginary object bequeathed to James Hall by a dying Russian soldier. This passes repeatedly between the Halls and an Italian family, the Lassaros.
These stories bring to life the struggles of those who had no hand in the politics that sent them to battle yet bore the brunt of its consequences. From the brutal battlefields to the quiet courage that followed, their journeys highlight the personal costs of conflicts initiated by distant politicians.
Narrated by a fourth-generation Hall in the twenty-first century, himself a former soldier, The Triptych offers a window into a family's legacy across a period marked by both volatility and violence. This novel is a tribute to the often unheralded resilience of ordinary people in times of conflict. Their lives paint a vivid triptych of quiet courage, endurance and the survival of the human spirit.
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Robert Hall has a Bachelor of Science (Hons) degree in Zoology from the University of Bristol, a Post-Graduate Certification in Education from the University of Cardiff, and a Master of Social Science degree in Russian and East European Studies from the University of Birmingham. After university, he joined the British army where he met several animals and served for 17 years before leaving for the business world in 1992. He has worked in senior managerial roles for a range of commercial organisations, including Jane s Information Group, Barclays, Marsh, BAT and G4S, focusing on resilience, risk and security issues. He served as the head of analysis for the UK s National Criminal Intelligence Service (now the National Crime Agency) from 1997 to 2000, and he was also the managing director of the Global Forum on Law Enforcement and National Security from 2000 to 2002. His last business appointment was as the cofounder and executive director of Resilience First Ltd, a membership organisation that promotes resilience in commerce. On stepping down in 2022, he condensed his knowledge of and experience on resilience in a book titled Building Resilient Futures which looks at various aspects of human resilience personal, emotional, organisational, urban, communal and national (Austin Macauley Publishers Ltd, 2023, ISBN: 9781035812622). Nature s Resilience is a sequel to Building Resilient Futures and The Resilience Mindset: A Philosophical Journey (Austin Macauley Publishers Ltd, 2025, ISBN: 9781035878284). This book is the last in the series on resilience. The author s first book, Soviet Military Art in a Time of Change: Command and Control of the Future Battlefield, was published at the end of the Cold War (Brassey s, 1991, ISBN: 0080413218). It arose from his work in the UK MoD (Defence Intelligence), where he obtained a defence fellowship. A historical novel The Triptych based on ancestral links was released by Austin Macauley Publishers Ltd in spring 2024.
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