Geoffrey Regan

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Full Name Geoffrey Bernard Regan Born 15 July 1946 (age 78) ( 1946-07-15 ) Alma mater University of London: PGCE (1972) Website thehistorian.co.uk at the Wayback Machine (archived 4 February 2005) Education University of Kent, University of London Books Great Military Blunders, Great Naval Blunders, Lionhearts: Saladin and Rich, The Brassey's Book of M, First crusader

Geoffrey Regan (born 15 July 1946) is an English author of popular history, former senior school teacher and broadcaster. He has authored books focused on military failures, and has written for newspapers and periodicals such as USA Today and History Today.

Geoffrey Regan The Guinness Book Of Royal Blunders by Geoffrey Regan Reviews

Education and career

Regan attended Sudbury Grammar School from 1957 onwards, University of Kent from 1965-1970, receiving his B.A. and M.A., and took his Postgraduate Certificate in Education at University of London in 1972. He taught at senior school level from 1971 through to 1990. He lives in Surrey, England.

Reception

Kirkus Reviews, describing Regan as author of "numerous popular military histories", wrote that Lionhearts "shines a soft, flattering light" on the warring leaders Saladin and Richard I, and scarcely condemns atrocities against captives.

A review of Great Military Disasters in the U.S. Air Force's Air Power Journal referred to it as "in depth"; the author's "historical perspective demonstrates the usefulness of studying history to gain insight, temper judgement, and train the mind." The St. Louis Post-Dispatch stated that with the book's "melancholy roll-call of failure, the student of military history might well wonder how anybody wins."

Fight or Flight was described in its 1996 Air Power Journal review as "readable, well organized, and extremely accessible", and "with an increasing number of military books dealing with technology, [. . . ], it is refreshing to find a book that emphasizes the one element found in all combat - people."

Works

He has published more than 40 books, including:

Great Military Disasters: A Historical Survey of Military Incompetence 1988. ISBN 978-0871315373

The Guinness Book of Military Blunders Guinness. 1991. ISBN 9780851129617

Fight or Flight 1996. ISBN 978-0380780198

Lionhearts: Saladin, Richard I, and the Era of the Third Crusade 1999. ISBN 978-0802713544

Backfire: A History of Friendly Fire 1999. ISBN 978-0788161216

Great Military Blunders 2000, along with a Channel Four television special of the same name

Naval Blunders 2000. ISBN 978-1574882537

Royal Blunders 2004. ISBN 978-0233050447

Battles That Changed History 2006. ISBN 978-1844421787

First Crusader: Byzantium's Holy Wars 2003. ISBN 978-1403961518

References

Geoffrey Regan Wikipedia

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