Gordon Corrigan

Major JGH Corrigan MBE FRHistS. Gordon Corrigan was commissioned from the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in 1962 and was an officer of the permanent cadre of 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. He was awarded the MBE (military) for setting up and commanding the first Brigade of Gurkhas depot in the UK. 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) and numerous E books. 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 Europe, N Africa and Asia and is a regular lecturer on cruises with Noble Caledonia and on rail journeys in Eastern Europe, Central Asia and China with Golden Eagle Luxury Trains. He has lectured in the United States and Canada and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, an Honorary Research Fellow of the Universities of Birmingham and Kent, a Member of the British Commission for Military History, a Freeman of the City of London and a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Farriers. His interests include horses, long lunches and the Times crossword, not necessarily in that order. He is married to Imogen, herself an Anglo-Saxon and Medieval historian, and lives in Kent.