MacArthur and Defeat in the Philippines

Richard Connaughton entered Sandhurst in 1960 directly from school and won a scholarship to study history at Oxford. He has had a varied career, including seven years with the Brigade of Gurkhas in Kowloon where he observed the Vietnam War and the Cultural Revolution in China. He has been an instructor at the British Army Staff College in Australia. He resumed his education at Cambridge, where he earned a post-graduate degree in International Relations. He earned a Ph.D. from the Center for Defense and International Security Studies, Lancaster University. He retired from the British Army in 1992 with the rank of Colonel. He is married with two children and lives in Dorset, EnglandRichard Connaughton is the author of 'MacArthur and Defeat in the Philippines' with ISBN 9781585673940 and ISBN 1585673943.