Tunes of Glory

It's peace-time after the end of WWII. Major Jock Sinclair has been the Acting Colonel of his Scottish highland battalion ever since circumstance placed him in the position near the end of the war. A man's man, he rose through the ranks starting as a piper to reach his current position. He is generally well-liked by the men in the battalion in that he works hard, and plays equally hard, often with the other officers albeit on his terms, as a respite from duties. Although he will remain with the battalion, Sinclair doesn't much like that he is imminently being replaced by Lt. Col. Basil Barrow, who is also a military lifer, but who rose to his rank through academia. Despite both having the good of the battalion and its men at heart, Sinclair and Barrow end up being like oil and water, Barrow somewhat old school in believing in regiment, including keeping to official rules, and that officers should always act like gentlemen, somewhat the antithesis of Sinclair. As such, Sinclair does whatever he can overtly but still slyly to undermine Barrow's leadership. With the battle lines drawn between the two men, each individual officer falls in somewhere along the continuum between the two. What happens not only with the two men but by association within the battalion is affected by an incident Sinclair has with Cpl. Ian Fraser, regarded as the best piper in the battalion but who Sinclair is unaware, based on her directive to Fraser not to say anything, is courting Sinclair's pretty daughter, Morag Sinclair, in combination with Barrow's own wartime experience where he was tortured as a POW.