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Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.
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Mud, Blood and Poppycock: This Will Overturn Everything You Thought You Knew about Britain and The First World War (Cassell Military Paperbacks)
(The true story of how Britain won the First World War. Th...)
The true story of how Britain won the First World War. The popular view of the First World War remains that of BLACKADDER: incompetent generals sending brave soldiers to their deaths. Alan Clark quoted a German general's remark that the British soldiers were 'lions led by donkeys'. But he made it up. Indeed, many established 'facts' about 1914-18 turn out to be myths woven in the 1960s by young historians on the make. Gordon Corrigan's brilliant, witty history reveals how out of touch we have become with the soldiers of 1914-18. They simply would not recognize the way their generation is depicted on TV or in Pat Barker's novels. Laced with dry humour, this will overturn everything you thought you knew about Britain and the First World War. Gordon Corrigan reveals how the British embraced technology, and developed the weapons and tactics to break through the enemy trenches.
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The Second World War: A Military History
( A landmark reassessment of World War II that reconsider...)
A landmark reassessment of World War II that reconsiders the immense six-year conflict under the lens of the many separate campaigns fought in Europe, Asia, and the Mediterranean A definitive single-volume military history of World War II, The Second World War reveals the vastly diverse ways in which each campaign was waged against very different enemies who rarely, if ever, coordinated their efforts. Corrigan, who has developed a scholarly reputation of challenging long-held historical assumptions, examines the agendas of the warring nations and offers fresh and vivid interpretations of how the war was fought and how it was won. In particular, the author dispels myths regarding the effectiveness of the American and British war efforts and brings the contributions of the Russian armies to the forefront. Vast in vision and epic in scope, The Second World War will change forever the way we think about the titanic conflicts that decided the shape of the modern world.
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Mud, Blood and Poppycock: This Will Overturn Everything You Thought You Knew about Britain and The First World War (Cassell Military Paperbacks) by Gordon Corrigan (2007-04-01)
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Mud, Blood and Poppycock: Britain and the Great War (CASSELL MILITARY PAPERBACKS) by Gordon Corrigan (2004-07-01)
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(Mud, Blood and Poppycock: Britain and the Great War) Author: Gordon Corrigan published on (April, 2007)
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Mud, Blood and Poppycock: This Will Overturn Everything You Thought You Knew about Britain and The First World War (Cassell Military Paperbacks) by Gordon Corrigan (2007-04-01)
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01K3NJ1GM/?tag=2022091-20
The Second World War: A Military History by Gordon Corrigan (2011-11-08)
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Mud, Blood and Poppycock by Gordon Corrigan (2003-10-01)
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Gordon Corrigan
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Corrigan was educated at the Royal School, Armagh, and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. He served in the British Army"s Royal Gurkha Rifles, mainly in the far east, and reached the rank of major. Between 1980 and 1987 he took a break from military service, joining the Royal Hong Kong Jockey Club where he was clerk of the course at the Happy Valley Racecourse from 1980 to 1982, and Racing Secretary from 1982 to 1987.
Corrigan was awarded the Administration Member of the Order of the British Empire in 1995 His last appointment was commanding the Gurkha Centre in Hampshire.
Following his retirement from the army in 1998, Corrigan became a freelance writer on military history. He also presented television documentaries, made speaking appearances and conducted tours of World War I battlefields.
He is an honorary research fellow of the University of Kent, and the University of Birmingham, and a teaching fellow at the Joint Services Command and Staff College. Corrigan authored Mud, Blood and Poppycock, one of the more recent histories of the First World War which challenges a number of popular cultural beliefs about that conflict.
The book received a positive review from historian Gary Sheffield Corrigan later wrote Blood, Sweat and Arrogance: The Myths of Churchill"s War in which he set out to demolish the "myths of Churchill"s War".
This book was criticised in a review by historian Piers Brendon who wrote
"his tone, occasionally sneering, often patronising and always cocksure, is particularly tiresome in someone so prone to error. He makes the elementary mistake of asserting, for example, that a Russian declaration of war against Japan "never came". His newest work, about the 100 years war, shows an obvious and admitted bias in favor of England coupled with a sincere interest in the doings of commoners and a wit that is the more trenchant for being understated.
This is probably untrue.".
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book
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The Second World War: A Military History
( A landmark reassessment of World War II that reconsider...)
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Mud, Blood and Poppycock: This Will Overturn Everything You Thought You Knew about Britain and The First World War (Cassell Military Paperbacks)
(The true story of how Britain won the First World War. Th...)
- Second World War A Military History
- Mud, Blood and Poppycock: This Will Overturn Everything You Thought You Knew about Britain and The First World War (Cassell Military Paperbacks) by Gordon Corrigan (2007-04-01)
- Mud, Blood and Poppycock: Britain and the Great War (CASSELL MILITARY PAPERBACKS) by Gordon Corrigan (2004-07-01)
- (Mud, Blood and Poppycock: Britain and the Great War) Author: Gordon Corrigan published on (April, 2007)
- Mud, Blood and Poppycock: This Will Overturn Everything You Thought You Knew about Britain and The First World War (Cassell Military Paperbacks) by Gordon Corrigan (2007-04-01)
- The Second World War: A Military History by Gordon Corrigan (2011-11-08)
- Mud, Blood and Poppycock by Gordon Corrigan (2003-10-01)
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The Second World War: A Military History
Politics
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.
Membership
He is also a fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society, a member of the British Commission for Military History and a liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Farriers.
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