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Ben H. Shepherd

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Ben H. Shepherd
Occupation(s)Historian; author
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Birmingham (PhD)
Academic work
Era20th century
InstitutionsGlasgow Caledonian University
Main interestsModern European history; military history
WebsiteOfficial website

Ben H. Shepherd is a British historian and author who specialises in German military history of World War II. He has authored several books on the German Army of 1935–1945. Shepherd in a reader in history at the Glasgow Caledonian University.[1]

Shepherd's latest book is Hitler's Soldiers: The German Army in the Third Reich, published by Yale University Press in 2016. The historian Robert M. Citino describes it as a "rich and satisfying book" due to its focus on the operational history of the German Army, as well as on its ideological and criminal aspects. Shepherd's prior work, War in the Wild East, focused on the German security warfare on the Eastern Front (World War II).[2]

Publications

  • Shepherd, Ben H. (2004). War in the Wild East the German Army and Soviet Partisans. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. ISBN 0674043553. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)
  • Shepherd, Ben H. (2016). Hitler's Soldiers: The German Army in the Third Reich. Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300179033. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)

References

  1. ^ Staff. "Dr Ben H Shepherd". Glasgow Caledonian University. Retrieved 19 October 2019.
  2. ^ Citino, Robert M. "Book Review: Hitler's Soldiers". HistoryNet. Retrieved 19 October 2019.