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

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. He has authored several books on the German Army of 1935–1945. Shepherd holds the position of

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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 Eastern Front (World War II).

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