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Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Geoffrey_Regan > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Geoffrey_Regan.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Regan > Source revision: 1283655467 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|British writer and teacher (1946–2005)}} {{For|the Canadian politician|Geoff Regan}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2020}} {{Infobox person | name = Geoffrey Regan | image = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = Geoffrey Bernard Regan | birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1946|07|15}} | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|2005|3|28|1946|07|15}} | education = [University of Kent](/source/University_of_Kent): M.A. | alma_mater = [University of London](/source/University_of_London): [PGCE](/source/Postgraduate_Certificate_in_Education) (1972) | occupation = author | website = {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050204023108/http://thehistorian.co.uk/menupage.html |date=4 February 2005 |title=thehistorian.co.uk }} }} '''Geoffrey Bernard Regan''' (15 July 1946{{snd}}28 March 2005){{cite web|website=Worldcat|url=https://entities.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJjt9M89PyHkcPjQtVhJXd.html|access-date=14 March 2025|title=WorldCat Entities: Geoffrey Regan}}Precise date found by search of [https://probatesearch.service.gov.uk/ UK probate records] for Geoffrey Regan, died 2005. was an English author of [popular history](/source/popular_history), senior school teacher and broadcaster. He authored books focused on military failures, and wrote for newspapers and periodicals such as ''[USA Today](/source/USA_Today)''{{cite news|work=USA Today|title= War technology cannot always trump human error|first=Geoffrey|last=Regan|date=4 August 2003 |url=https://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2003-04-08-opcom_x.htm}} and ''[History Today](/source/History_Today)''.{{cite news |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110823222450/http://www.historytoday.com/geoffrey-regan/time-bandit |archive-date= 23 August 2011 |url=http://www.historytoday.com/geoffrey-regan/time-bandit |access-date=6 September 2012 |url-status=dead |title=Time Bandit |work= History Today |volume=51 |date=1 December 2001 | last=Regan |first= Geoffrey |quote=... explains how the experience of boredom in the classroom set him off into a career as inspirational teacher, writer and broadcaster }} ==Education and career== Regan attended Sunbury 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](/source/Postgraduate_Certificate_in_Education) at University of London in 1972. He taught at senior school level from 1971 through to 1990. He lived in [Surrey](/source/Surrey), [England](/source/England).{{cite web|title=Geoffrey Regan website |year=2000 |url=http://www.thehistorian.co.uk/GeoffreyRegan.html |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20001209072800/http://www.thehistorian.co.uk/GeoffreyRegan.html |archivedate=9 December 2000 |url-status=dead |accessdate=19 January 2017 |df=dmy}} ==Reception== ''[Kirkus Reviews](/source/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.{{cite web|url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/geoffrey-regan/lionhearts/ |accessdate=6 September 2012 |title=''Lionhearts'' by Geoffrey Regan | publisher=Kirkus Book Reviews |date=15 May 1999}} A review of ''Great Military Disasters'' in the [U.S. Air Force](/source/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".{{cite journal |last=Terry |first= Michael R. |year=1990 |title=Net Assessment: ''Great Military Disasters'' (review) |journal=Airpower Journal|volume= 4 |issue= 1 |page= 81 |accessdate=6 September 2012 |publisher=U.S. Superintendent of Documents|url=http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/book-reviews/9604290405/net-assessment|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140119083456/http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/book-reviews/9604290405/net-assessment|url-status=dead|archive-date=19 January 2014}}{{subscription required}} 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".{{cite news| title=Book review: Sad roll call of warfare's bad blunders|first=Harry |last=Levine |work=[St. Louis Post-Dispatch](/source/St._Louis_Post-Dispatch) (Newsbank)|date= 8 November 1988 | page= 5D |url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=SL&p_theme=sl&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB3298454D38918&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM}}{{subscription required}} ''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."{{cite web |url=http://www.airpower.au.af.mil/airchronicles/apj/apj96/fal96.html |accessdate=6 September 2012 |title=Net Assessment: ''Fight or Flight'' (review) |date=Fall 1996 |volume=X |issue=3 (AFRP 10-1) |first=Robert |last=Tate |publisher=[U.S. Air Force](/source/U.S._Air_Force) [Air University](/source/Air_University_(United_States_Air_Force)) |archive-date=23 May 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120523213143/http://www.airpower.au.af.mil/airchronicles/apj/apj96/fal96.html |url-status=dead }} ==Works== He published more than 40 books,[http://www.paperbackswap.com/Geoffrey-Regan/author/ "Geoffrey Regan (author)"]. PaperbackSwap.com. including: * ''Great Military Disasters: A Historical Survey of Military Incompetence'' 1988. {{ISBN|978-0871315373}} * ''The Guinness Book of Military Blunders'' Guinness. 1991. {{ISBN|978-0851129617}} * ''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, {{ISBN|978-0752218984}}. Regan was the Series Consultant for the [Channel Four](/source/Channel_Four) television series ''Great Military Blunders''{{cite book |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=ii83vgAACAAJ |access-date= 22 December 2022 |title= Great Military Blunders: History's Worst Battlefield Decisions from Ancient Times to the Present Day |isbn= 978-0233005096 |last1= Regan |first1= Geoffrey |date=2017 }} * ''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== ==External links== * {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20001018223046/http://www.thehistorian.co.uk/menupage.html |date=18 October 2000 |title=Geoffrey Regan website }}. {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Regan, Geoffrey}} Category:1946 births Category:Living people Category:Alumni of the University of London Category:English military historians Category:Alumni of the University of Kent --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Geoffrey Regan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Regan) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Regan?action=history)). 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