Ben H. Shepherd (born 1970) is a British historian and author who specialises in German military history of

World War II World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...

. He has authored several books on the

German Army The German Army (, 'army') is the land component of the armed forces of Federal Republic of Germany, Germany. The present-day German Army was founded in 1955 as part of the newly formed West German together with the German Navy, ''Marine'' (G ...

of 1935–1945. Shepherd holds the position of reader in history at the

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. Shepherd's latest work is ''Hitler's Soldiers: The German Army in the Third Reich'', published by

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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. One of Shepherd's prior works, ''War in the Wild East'', focused on the German security warfare on the

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British historians Alumni of the University of Birmingham Living people British military historians British historians of World War II Year of birth missing (living people) {{UK-historian-stub