Commissioned from The Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in 1962, Gordon Corrigan was an officer of the Royal Gurkha Rifles before retiring from the Army in 1998. He served mainly in the Far East, but also in Berlin, Cyprus, Belize and Northern Ireland. His last appointment was Commanding Officer of the Gurkha Centre in Hampshire. He is now a military historian.

He is the author of Sepoys in the Trenches: The Indian Corps on the Western Front 1914 – 1915; Wellington: A Military Life; Mud, Blood and Poppycock: Britainand the First World War; Loos 1915: The Unwanted Battle; and Blood, Sweat and Arrogance: and the Myths of Churchill’s War. His next book, The Second World War: A New History is due to be published in 2010. His television appearances include The Gurkhas, Napoleon’s Waterloo and Battlefield Detectives, plus he has presented five series on various aspects of military history.

Gordon Corrigan is an Honorary Research Fellow of the Universities of Birmingham and Kent, 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.

Lecture Titles:

• The Background to the Peninsular War
• The British Army in the Peninsula
• Allies in the Peninsula
• Cockleshell Heroes: the Royal Marine Commando Raid on Bordeaux 1942
• Life in Nelson's Navy
• Henry V and the Hundred Years War
• Operation Overlord: the Normandy Landings of 6 June 1944

Date	Days	Voyage	Ship	Embark/Disembark	Silver Privilege Fares
May 16 2014	10	7410	Silver Explorer	Portsmouth, UK to Greenock (Glasgow), Scotland, UK		$5,250
May 26 2014	10	7411	Silver Explorer	Greenock (Glasgow), Scotland, UK to Bergen, Norway		$4,950