Battleaxe: A MemoirBorn in Alexandria in 1944 to Jewish parents from Germany and Austria, Margaret arrived in England aged four stateless, foreign, and an outsider. Those origins shaped everything. Her grandmother was murdered by the Nazis. Her grandfather was greeted as an enemy alien and then interned on British soil. Anti racism was written into Hodge's DNA. So was the instinct to battle back. Over more than fifty years as an elected representative councillor,