‘THE LAST POST’ Phil Hodges pays a memorable visit to Ypres
The Last Post ceremony at the Menin Gate in Ypres goes together with the town like strawberries and cream at Wimbledon. It’s as ingrained into…
MAJOR & MRS HOLT’S BATTLEFIELD GUIDE TO YPRES SALIENT & PASSCHENDAELE – Review by Phil Hodges
What better way to review a book than on an actual road trip of the area? Excellent idea! Well, actually It proved to be tougher…
A WOMAN LIVING IN THE SHADOW OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR – Review by Phil Hodges
Quaint. That’s how I’d describe this book. It’s like Miss Marple’s memoirs and should come complete with a cream tea, a copy of The Times…
ONE HELL OF A WAR
ONE HELL OF A WAR; ONE HELL OF AN INTERVIEW. Or something like that… Those of you who read our review of One Hell Of…
ONE HELL OF A WAR – Review by Phil Hodges
So you want to write a book about World War 2 about a specific unit or Regiment? In this case you want to write about…
FLAKHELFER TO GRENADIER – Review by Phil Hodges
When we think of child soldiers most of us automatically think of conflicts in Africa. Harrowing news footage of kids armed with AK47 rifles and…
SAS OPERATION BULLBASKET – Review by Phil Hodges
Ok guys, look. This is for your own sakes. It’s my job to read military books and watch DVDs and then review them in an…
REMEMBRANCE: Phil Hodges shares his emotions of witnessing events in London on Remembrance Sunday.
Early on Sunday morning as the sun rose high across the green British countryside myself and the family caught a train heading for London, tired and…
BLOOD DIVIDE – Review by Phil Hodges
When Mark ‘The Ed’ Barnes at WHO HQ said he was sending me Something a little different in the post I feared the worst. Not another…
BUSH WAR RHODESIA – Review by Phil Hodges
Right, well here goes. BUSH WAR RHODESIA 1966-1980 is part of the Africa@War series, volume 17, don’t you know? It all sounded very cliquey to…
AGINCOURT – Review by Squire Philip de Hodges
Military DVDs: Did I want to review some? Well not really, no. I’d experienced some before and to be blunt they were awful! I’ve never…
I survived – Review by Phil Hodges
Loveable: That’s how 4124 Private ‘Ginger’ Byrne came across in this book; after all it is his and based solely on his memoirs. It’s the…