Peter Cottrell

Peter James Cottrell (born 1964 ) is a Welsh^[1] soldier,^[2] sailor,^[3] writer, educator and revisionist military historian of the Irish War of Independence and Irish Civil War.^[4]

Career

Cottrell is the author^[5] of the best-selling military history The Anglo-Irish War: The Troubles 1913–23 which challenges traditional nationalist interpretations of the Easter Rising; the role of the Royal Irish Constabulary and the popularity of the IRA campaign whilst supporting the view that the conflict was as much an Irish civil war as a struggle for independence from the UK.^[6]

He grew up in the village of

After qualifying as a teacher he was commissioned into the Royal Navy in 1988 and transferred to the British Army in 1995, ending his military career as a Major.^[8][9] He is a great-great nephew of the English rugby player George Cottrell, and a member of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers Association.

Works

• The Militarisation of Policing in Ireland: 1913–22 (Open University MA Thesis 2002)
• Myth, the Military and Anglo-Irish Policing 1913–1922 (British Army Review No 133, Winter 2003)
• The
  ISBN 978-1-84603-023-9
• The
  ISBN 978-1-84603-270-7
• The War for Ireland 1913–23 – Editor and principal contributing author (Osprey Publishing 2009)
  ISBN 978-1-84603-996-6
• I Am Soldier – Contributing author (Osprey Publishing 2009)
  ISBN 1-84603-515-5
• Lies, damned lies and statistics: a British perspective of policing the Anglo-Irish War. Paper delivered to the Military History Society of Ireland/National Museum of Ireland Conference marking the ninetieth anniversary of the outbreak of the Anglo-Irish War, Dublin, October 2009
• England's Janissary (
  Anglo-Irish War
• Wyrdegrove (
  ISBN 978-1719848855 – An historical fantasy novel set in Afghanistan and the English Civil War
• The Lambs (
  ISBN 978-0-7198-1183-8 – The prequel to England's Janissary set during The Great War