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Biography & True Accounts
Oliver Cromwell is one of the most divisive figures in British history. Called by some a rebel, regicide, religious bigot, dictator, despot, slaughterer of the innocent, Irish war criminal, usurper and hypocrite. By others... See More
History
'An intriguing and convincing reassessment of the US Civil War's Siege of Atlanta as one of great hinge moments of history.' Saul David 1864. The Civil War still rages on. Lincoln is running for his second term of... See More
History
'One of England's greatest medieval battles, here brilliantly brought to life by one of Britain's great military historians.' Robert Lyman, author of A War of Empires The Hundred Years War. England's armies continue to win... See More
'An insightful book, which captures the drama and significance of the battle... Corrigan's prose is gripping, whilst his judgement is measured.' Oliver Webb-Carter, Editor of Aspects of History June 1941. Operation... See More
History
Fought on Sunday, 18 June 1815, by some 220,000 men over rain-sodden ground in what is now Belgium, the Battle of Waterloo brought an end to twenty-three years of almost continual war between revolutionary and later imperial... See More
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Few battles actually change history -- but Sluys is one of them. The Battle of Sluys was fought in 1340 and was one of the opening battles of what came to be called the Hundred Years War. The strained relationship... See More
History
'Political, fluent, well-researched and extremely argumentative' Andrew Roberts Gordon Corrigan examines Haig, Pershing and Rommel, detailing their lives, leadership and the legends surrounding them. General Pershing... See More
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Very few figures in British military history are the subject of such violently opposing views as Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig. Some see Haig as the man who won the war for the Allies, defeating the German Army through a... See More
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In the annals of British history the name Montgomery is legend. During the Second World War Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery led the British Eighth Army against Rommel's elite Panzers from August 1942 in the Western... See More
History
The Hundred Years War was fought between 1337 and 1453 over English claims to both the throne of France by right of inheritance and large parts of the country that had been at one time Norman or, later, English. The fighting... See More
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'Political, fluent, well-researched.' - Andrew Roberts. Erwin Rommel was one of the greatest generals of World War Two. But who was he before he became the Desert Fox? Born in 1891, Johannes Erwin Eugen Rommel did not... See More
History
In many ways 1915 is the forgotten year of First World War studies, and yet it saw the British and the French make repeated attempts to find methods that would release them from the stalemate that had existed since the end... See More
In this major new history, Gordon Corrigan argues that what we call the Second World War was in fact two separate conflicts: one against Germany (and, for a while, Italy) in Western Europe, Soviet Russia and North Africa... See More
History
' A masterful storyteller and expert military historian, Gordon Corrigan recounts the bravado, betrayal and bloody final battle of the multi-generational war that tore the Greek world into two. A thrilling account of one of... See More
History
'Corrigan sets the scene of each individual episode in history well - and then makes his case for its significance. An enjoyable and intelligent series.' Richard Foreman The Battle of Aegospotami The Peloponnesian War was... See More
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... See More
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October 1914. With the First World War underway, and desperately short of men, the British Army forms the two-division Indian Corps which is sent over to France just in time for the first battle of Ypres. They find... See More
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"Next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained." - Wellington The Duke of Wellington, the most successful of British commanders, set a standard by which all subsequent British generals have been measured... See More
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'Political, fluent, well-researched.' Andrew Roberts Very few figures in American military history are the subject of such violently opposing views as General John J Pershing (1860-1948). To his critics Pershing was... See More
Why the British forces fought so badly in World War II and who was to blame Gordon Corrigan's Mud, Blood and Poppycock overturned the myths that surround the First World War. Now he challenges our assumptions about the... See More
History
'A pacy, insightful account of the battle... Corrigan puts Crécy in its wider context, yet also focuses in on the blood and brutality of the fighting.' Richard Foreman, author of Band of Brothers. The 14th century. One of... See More