Guarding Hitler – Review by Phil Hodges
I Was Hitler’s Secretary. I Was Hitler’s Boss. The Jew Who Defeated Hitler. Chocolate Cake With Hitler. Hitler’s Table Talk. Some of these sound absurd,…
Forts And Fortifications – Review by Phil Hodges
Like the title suggests, this wasn’t a book to be read in your lunch break This was to be no quick read but was specialist…
PROPAGANDA KOMPANIEN – Reviewed by Phil Hodges
Gobsmacked. That’s how Mark at WHO HQ felt when I finally sent him this review! It was months in the making and as Mark would…
BELSEN – Review by Phil Hodges
The name Belsen is synonymous with a vision of hell. We automatically think of the pictures we’ve seen of the twisted bodies being thrown unceremoniously…
COMMANDO DESPATCH RIDER – Review by Phil Hodges
WW2 memoirs come thick and fast these days. There’s everything from the D-Day hero who parachuted into Normandy fighting his way through an enemy held town…
ISANDLWANA ZULU BATTLEFIELD – Review by Phil Hodges
Isandlwana. For me it conjures up images of carnage, panic and total and absolute fear.As a child I remember watching the film Zulu with my…
DOVER’S WESTERN HEIGHTS IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR – Review by Phil Hodges
To find a book where the author has total and absolute knowledge of the subject is quite rare. To find an author whose passion almost…
Our Land at War – Review by Phil Hodges
I turned forty last month, hardly the time for a walking stick and a pipe but I do have a favourite chair and cushion in…
TOMMY HANDBOOK – Reviewed by Phil Hodges
Spiffing! Absolutely spiffing! This book is a delightful somewhat tongue in cheek look at the WW1 Tommy. That’s slang for a British soldier for those of…
The Western Heights, Dover – By Phil Hodges
Next weekend sees one of the most historic venues for multi period living history taking centre stage, for it’s that time of year when Dover’s…
The Atlantic Wall – A ‘Beginners’ Guide for visitors by Phil Hodges
As a fairly regular visitor to the Pas-De-Calais I decided one day to make a trip to France with the sole purpose of discovering the…
UNKNOWN WARRIOR – JHP: Review by John Henry Phillips
The concept of aeroplanes being used in a war as early as World War One has always fascinated me. Although, this interest did not quite…