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George Herbert Fosdike Nichols
Best known for vivid firsthand writing on World War I, this British journalist brought a reporter’s eye and a soldier’s experience to his books. He also wrote under the pen name “Quex,” blending sharp observation with a lively, accessible style.
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Pushed and the Return Push
by George Herbert Fosdike Nichols
About the author
Born in Stamford, England, in 1881, George Herbert Fosdike Nichols was a British journalist and author. Yale Library describes him as a reporter who began on a Nottingham newspaper before moving to the London Evening News in 1907, where he worked for about twenty-five years in roles ranging from reporter to literary and news editor. He also wrote a well-known column, The Diary of a Man about Town, under the pseudonym “Quex.”
Nichols is especially remembered for Pushed and the Return Push, a World War I account linked to his own military service. Sources about his work identify him as having served as an artillery officer, and later as the author of The 18th Division in the Great War, another book drawing on that experience. That mix of frontline knowledge and newsroom craft helps explain the direct, readable quality of his war writing.
He died in 1933. While reliable biographical detail is fairly limited online, the available records consistently show a writer whose career bridged journalism, commentary, and military history.