id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-7838 David Stahel - Wikipedia .html text/html 983 123 59 David Stahel (born 1975 in Wellington, New Zealand) is a historian, author and senior lecturer in history at the University of New South Wales.[1] He specialises in German military history of World War II. 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 is in David Stahel's book", at the same time "convey[ing] extremely complex military action with exemplary clarity". 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 the time of the victory at Kiev heralded in Nazi propaganda as decisive.[4] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-7838.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-7838.txt