Major Gordon Corrigan MBE FRHistS
Popular military historian, author and TV personality
Gordon Corrigan was commissioned from the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in 1962 and was an officer of the permanent cadre of the Sixth Gurkha Rifles and then the Royal Gurkha Rifles before leaving the army in 1998. He served mainly in the Far East but also in Cyprus, Berlin, Belize and N Ireland. His last posting was as Commanding Officer of the Gurkha Centre, training recruits for the Brigade of Gurkhas and running courses for the Brigade. He is now a professional historian. He is the author of Sepoys in the Trenches, The Indian Corps on the Western Front 1914 – 1915, (Spellmount, 1999); Wellington, A Military Life, (Hambledon & London, 2001); Mud, Blood and Poppycock: Britain and the First World War (Cassell & Co, 2003); Loos 1915, The Unwanted Battle (Spellmount, 2006); Blood, Sweat and Arrogance – And The Myths of Churchill’s War (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2006); The Second World War – A Military History (Atlantic Books 2010); A Great and Glorious Adventure – A Military History of the Hundred Years War (Atlantic Books 2013) and Waterloo – A New History of the Battle and its Armies (Atlantic Books 2014) as well as numerous eBooks. His television appearances include The Gurkhas, Napoleon’s Waterloo and Battlefield Detectives, and so far he has presented five series on various aspects of military history. He has conducted military history study tours in France, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Holland, Spain, Portugal, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Egypt, Libya and Tunisia and is a regular lecturer on expedition ships with and Silver Sea and on rail journeys in Europe and Central Asia with GW Travel. He has lectured in the United States and Canada and is an honorary research fellow of the Universities of Birmingham and Kent, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, a Member of the British Commission for Military History, and a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Farriers. He is married to an Anglo-Saxon and medieval historian and his interests include horses, long lunches and the Times crossword, not necessarily in that order.
Visit his website here for lectures on Military History.
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Upcoming Tours
- Italy During the First World War
- The First Sikh War 1845-46 and Indian Hill Stations
- Wellington in India
Recommended Reading List
- A Great and Glorious Adventure - A History of the Hundred Years War and the Birth of Renaissance England
- Mud, Blood and Poppycock: Britain and the Great War
- Sepoys in The Trenches
- Sepoys in the Trenches: The Indian Corps on the Western Front 1914-15
- The Second World War: A Military History
- Waterloo: A New History of the Battle and its Armies
- Wellington: A Military Life
