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	'''John Gordon Harvey Corrigan''' [[Order of the British Empire\|MBE]], [[Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society\|FRAS]] (born 1942) is a former [[United Kingdom\|British]] soldier and historical writer and broadcaster.		'''John Gordon Harvey Corrigan''' [[Order of the British Empire\|MBE]], [[Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society\|FRAS]] (born 1942) is a former [[United Kingdom\|British]] soldier and historical writer and broadcaster.

	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.<ref name=Brum>{{Cite web\|url=http://www.firstworldwar.bham.ac.uk/members/corrigan.htm\|publisher=[[University of Birmingham]]\|title=Members of the Centre\|year=2009\|accessdate=23 February ~~2022~~}}</ref> Corrigan was awarded the MBE in 1995<ref>{{Cite web \|url=http://www.gazettes-online.co.uk/issues/54255/supplements/6/page.pdf \|title=Supplement to the London Gazette, 30 December 1995 \|access-date=5 July 2010 \|archive-date=16 June 2012 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120616131159/http://www.gazettes-online.co.uk/issues/54255/supplements/6/page.pdf \|url-status=dead }}</ref> His last appointment was commanding the Gurkha Centre in Hampshire.		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.<ref name=Brum>{{Cite web\|url=http://www.firstworldwar.bham.ac.uk/members/corrigan.htm\|publisher=[[University of Birmingham]]\|title=Members of the Centre\|year=2009\|accessdate=23 February 2009}}</ref> Corrigan was awarded the MBE in 1995<ref>{{Cite web \|url=http://www.gazettes-online.co.uk/issues/54255/supplements/6/page.pdf \|title=Supplement to the London Gazette, 30 December 1995 \|access-date=5 July 2010 \|archive-date=16 June 2012 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120616131159/http://www.gazettes-online.co.uk/issues/54255/supplements/6/page.pdf \|url-status=dead }}</ref> 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]],<ref>{{Cite web \|url=http://www.kent.ac.uk/history/staff/index.html?tab=emeriti-amp-honorary-staff \|title=Staff - School of History - University of Kent \|access-date=13 November 2011 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150203225327/http://www.kent.ac.uk/history/staff/index.html?tab=emeriti-amp-honorary-staff \|archive-date=3 February 2015 \|url-status=dead }}</ref> and the [[University of Birmingham]],<ref name=Brum/> and a [[teaching fellow]] at the [[Joint Services Command and Staff College]]. 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]].		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]],<ref>{{Cite web \|url=http://www.kent.ac.uk/history/staff/index.html?tab=emeriti-amp-honorary-staff \|title=Staff - School of History - University of Kent \|access-date=13 November 2011 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150203225327/http://www.kent.ac.uk/history/staff/index.html?tab=emeriti-amp-honorary-staff \|archive-date=3 February 2015 \|url-status=dead }}</ref> and the [[University of Birmingham]],<ref name=Brum/> and a [[teaching fellow]] at the [[Joint Services Command and Staff College]]. 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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	His 2010 ''The Second World War: A Military History'' received critical acclaim. "[A] highly readable new look at the titanic struggle between nations" - The Independent. "An invaluable source of reference [that] should be savoured" - Daily Express. "Bold, incisive, and insightful....A first class read" - Michael Jones, author of 'The Retreat: Hitler's First Defeat'		His 2010 ''The Second World War: A Military History'' received critical acclaim. "[A] highly readable new look at the titanic struggle between nations" - The Independent. "An invaluable source of reference [that] should be savoured" - Daily Express. "Bold, incisive, and insightful....A first class read" - Michael Jones, author of 'The Retreat: Hitler's First Defeat'

	His newest work is about the [[Hundred Years' War]].{{citation needed\|date=November ~~2022~~}}		His newest work is about the [[Hundred Years' War]].{{citation needed\|date=November 2018}}

	==Published works==		==Published works==

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'''John Gordon Harvey Corrigan''' [[Order of the British Empire|MBE]], [[Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society|FRAS]] (born 1942) is a former [[United Kingdom|British]] soldier and historical writer and broadcaster.

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.<ref name=Brum>{{Cite web|url=http://www.firstworldwar.bham.ac.uk/members/corrigan.htm|publisher=[[University of Birmingham]]|title=Members of the Centre|year=2009|accessdate=23 February 2022}}</ref> Corrigan was awarded the MBE in 1995<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.gazettes-online.co.uk/issues/54255/supplements/6/page.pdf |title=Supplement to the London Gazette, 30 December 1995 |access-date=5 July 2010 |archive-date=16 June 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120616131159/http://www.gazettes-online.co.uk/issues/54255/supplements/6/page.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> 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]],<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.kent.ac.uk/history/staff/index.html?tab=emeriti-amp-honorary-staff |title=Staff - School of History - University of Kent |access-date=13 November 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150203225327/http://www.kent.ac.uk/history/staff/index.html?tab=emeriti-amp-honorary-staff |archive-date=3 February 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and the [[University of Birmingham]],<ref name=Brum/> and a [[teaching fellow]] at the [[Joint Services Command and Staff College]]. 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]].

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. 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. The book received a positive review from historian [[Gary Sheffield (historian)|Gary Sheffield]].<ref>[https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/mud-blood-and-poppycock-by-gordon-corrigan-588687.html The Independent - Books ''Mud, Blood and Poppycock, by Gordon Corrigan'' Saturday, 2 August 2003]{{dead link|date=August 2021|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> 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:<ref>[https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/blood-sweat-and-arrogance-by-gordon-corrigan-477774.html The Independent - Books - Piers Brendon ''A debunker debriefed'' Friday, 12 May 2006]</ref>
<blockquote>"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".</blockquote>

His 2010 ''The Second World War: A Military History'' received critical acclaim. "[A] highly readable new look at the titanic struggle between nations" - The Independent. "An invaluable source of reference [that] should be savoured" - Daily Express. "Bold, incisive, and insightful....A first class read" - Michael Jones, author of 'The Retreat: Hitler's First Defeat'

His newest work is about the [[Hundred Years' War]].{{citation needed|date=November 2022}}

==Published works==
*''A Great and Glorious Adventure: A History of the Hundred Years War and the Birth of Renaissance England'', 2014 ({{ISBN|978-1-60598-579-4}})
*''The Second World War: A Military History'', 2010 ({{ISBN|1843548941}})
*''Mud, Blood and Poppycock'', 2003 ({{ISBN|0304359556}})
*''Blood, Sweat and Arrogance: The Myths of Churchill's War'', 2006 ({{ISBN|0-297-84623-X}})
*''Loos 1915: The Unwanted Battle'' ({{ISBN|1-86227-239-5}})
*''Sepoys in the Trenches – The Indian Corps on the Western Front 1914–15'' (article) ({{ISBN|1-86227-354-5}})
*''Wellington – a Military Life'' ({{ISBN|1-85285-262-3}})
*''Waterloo – A new history of the battle and its armies''

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