Description: This book considers Fourth Army's operations at the River Selle between 9-24 October 1918.
Brief description: Dr Peter Hodgkinson spent a professional career in clinical psychology. He obtained an MA in British First World War Studies in 2006 at the University of Birmingham, and was awarded his PhD there in 2014 on the topic of infantry battalion commanders. He is the author of British Infantry Battalion Commanders in the First World War (Ashgate, 2015); 'Glum Heroes' Hardship, Fear and Death - Resilience and Coping in the British Army on the Western Front 1914-1918 (Helion, 2016); The Battle of the Selle: Fourth Army Operations on the Western Front in the Hundred Days, 9-24 October 1918 (Helion, 2017); Fourth Army at the Battle of the Selle 9-24 October 1918: A Battlefield Guide (Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing, 2017); and The Resourceful Gunner: Inventor Major Conrad Dinwiddy in the First World War(Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing, 2018). He has two daughters and lives in South London.
Review Quotes: "Illustrated with a number of good, clear and simple maps and several annotated "now" photographs of the ground, the book describes the action in depth. There are endless footnotes and the narrative is at a detailed level...Excellent - and about time that the succession of major British victories in 1918 was afforded such attention."-- "Long Long Trail"