Peter Hodgkinson

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...See more

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. See less