David Stahel (born 1975 in Wellington , New Zealand) is a historian, author and senior lecturer in history at the University of New South Wales . He specialises in German military history of World War II . Stahel has authored several books on the military operations of the first six months of the Eastern Front , including on the launching of Operation Barbarossa , the Battle of Kiev (1941) and the Battle for Moscow .
6-450: Stahel is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: David Stahel (born 1975), military historian Florian Stahel (born 1985), footballer Julius Stahel (1825–1912), soldier Reiner Stahel (1892–1955), military officer Rolf Stahel (born 1944), Swiss businessman Walter R. Stahel (born 1946), Swiss architect [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with
12-579: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles David Stahel Stahel completed an honours degree at Monash University and Boston College . He has an MA in War Studies from King's College London and a PhD in 2007 from the Humboldt University of Berlin . He joined the University of New South Wales Canberra in 2012. Stahel has authored several books on the military operations on
18-648: Is in David Stahel’s book", at the same time "convey[ing] extremely complex military action with exemplary clarity". The reviewer writes: Unlike more traditional military historians, Stahel is acutely aware of the wider context of the action, from Hitler’s overall aims for the war to the importance of logistics for the outcome; from the murderous racism and ruthless pragmatism with which the German leaders, military as well as political, condemned so many Soviet civilians to starve and so many Jewish inhabitants to terrible death, to
24-652: The Eastern Front , including Operation Barbarossa , the Battle of Kiev (1941) and the Battle of Moscow ; all books were published by Cambridge University Press . Reviewing Stahel's Kiev 1941: Hitler's Battle for Supremacy in the East for the New Republic , the historian Richard Evans notes that "the story of the Battle of Kiev has been told many times, but seldom in such detail as it
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36-418: The postwar disputes among historians and retired generals over Hitler’s strategy. Evans commends Stahel for his "refreshing realism" in not "following traditional military historians’ often overly positive and simplistic descriptions of 'great' generals and 'decisive' battles" and exploring "convincingly if not entirely originally" how the foundations of the German war efforts were already beginning to crumble by
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