Gordon Corrigan for Cassell Corrigan is an ex-Ghurka officer with the usual chippy attitude of the long-service soldier against non-soldiers and (especially) politicians. (A slimy comment on the Glorious Revolution for example).You see my dears they (the ruddy politicos) just don’t get it! His mission is to hit for six some of the WW1 images courtesy of (say) Blackadder or Oh What A Lovely War. He does this fairly effectively, in the best passages by use a wide range of facts that do not usually come up in accounts of the period. My view is that he demolishes many of the myths (though few PA readers would have believed all of them) but often pushes a little too far forward in pursuit. His attitude to executing witless young men is precisely the sort of party line one would expect from anyone normative enough to serve in the army. Although occasionally annoying the fuller treatment of (for example) the French Mutinies is well worth reading. At times it feels like a longer version of John Terraine but is worth reading even if you have Terraine. A superior book to Mosier’s tirade but it’s still not balanced. Old Duffer's Book Corner Book Reviews The First Armies Verdun 1916 Russia's Civil War Luetzen 1632 Philip V of Spain The End of Chivalry Le Roi De Guerre Warships of the Napoleonic Era Cannae The Death of Anglo-Saxon England Ancient Siege Warfare War and Society in Revolutionary Europe 1770-1870 Forgotten Victory The Remaking of the English Navy Cassino: The Hollow Victory Raising Churchill's Army The Imperial War Museum Book of the War in Italy The Irish And British Wars 1637-1654 Cavaliers: The Royalist Army At War 1642-1646 Alamein Normandy 1944 Hill 112 Breaking The Panzers Béveziers (1690) Paths of Glory: The French Army 1914-18 Caesar’s Legion Operation Bluecoat Operation Epsom Marching to the Sound of Gunfire The Franco-Prussian War Robert the Bruce’s Irish Wars When Titans Clashed The Wars of Edward III Monte Cassino Under Fire The Somme Roads to Falaise Mud, Blood And Poppycock All The Kaiser’s Men Iron Hulls Iron Hearts A Noble Crusade The Pendulum of Battle: Operation Goodwood The English Resistance The Battle of Koniggrätz Pallas Armata Back to Perfidious Albion #104 Table of Contents Back to Perfidious Albion List of Issues Back to MagWeb Master Magazine List © Copyright 2004 by Charles and Teresa Vasey. This article appears in MagWeb (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other military history articles and gaming articles are available at http://www.magweb.com