Career
He was a war correspondent and northern editor of the Daily Mail. Born in Bury, Lancashire in 1891, Hodson worked as a war correspondent during World World War II, and he wrote a war diary that was published by Victor Gollancz as a series of 7 books Through the Dark Night, Towards the Morning, Before Daybreak, "War in the Sun, Home Front, And Yet I like America and The Sea and the Land.
He also wrote the official British film Desert Victory.
He toured the United States from 1943-1944, writing And Yet I Like America on his return. His 1952 novel Morning Star had as its theme the freedom of the press in England.
His novel Return To The Wood (1955) became a play (by John Wilson) and then a film (1964, directed by Joseph Losey and starring Dirk Bogarde), both called King & Country. He died aged 65 on 28 August 1956 at Lewisham Hospital.