Gordon Corrigan
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Gordon Corrigan MBE (born 1942) is a British solider and historian.
Corrigan was educated at the Royal School, Armagh, and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. He is formerly a regular officer in the British Army's Royal Gurkha Rifles; following his retirement in 1998, he became a freelance military historian.
Author of Mud, Blood and Poppycock, a history of the First World War which challenges a number of popular cultural beliefs about that conflict. These beliefs remain embedded in the minds of the general public but have been generally discarded by historians.
Among the targets for his book are the beliefs that British generalship was incompetent, blinkered and reactionary and that the military justice system was unfair.
[edit] Published Works
- Blood, Sweat and Arrogance: The Myths of Churchill's War, 2006 (ISBN 0-297-84623-X)
- Mud, Blood and Poppycock (ISBN 0304359556)
- Loos 1915: The Unwanted Battle (ISBN 1-86227-239-5)
- Sepoys in the Trenches — The Indian Corps on the Western Front 1914-15 (ISBN 1-86227-354-5)
- Wellington — a Military Life (ISBN 1-85285-262-3)
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