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name: Aaron Stephan Hamilton
about: Aaron Stephan Hamilton has spent the last twenty-five years researching and analyzing the final year of military conflict during World War II in Europe.He is an academically trained historian who holds a Bachelors and Master's degree in History, as well as the Field Historian designator awarded by the U.S. Army's Combat Studies Institute.The focus of his research has been the primary documents related to the last year of fighting along the Eastern Front. A time-period and geographic area often neglected by Western researchers due to a lack of easily availability primary sources. His multi-volume history The Oder Front 1945, became the basis for the U.S. Army Europe's (USAREUR) first Staff Ride and Battle Book about the Battle of the Seelow Aaron Stephan Hamilton has spent the last twenty-five years researching and analyzing the final year of military conflict during World War II in Europe.He is an academically trained historian who holds a Bachelors and Master's degree in History, as well as the Field Historian designator awarded by the U.S. Army's Combat Studies Institute.The focus of his research has been the primary documents related to the last year of fighting along the Eastern Front. A time-period and geographic area often neglected by Western researchers due to a lack of easily availability primary sources. His multi-volume history The Oder Front 1945, became the basis for the U.S. Army Europe's (USAREUR) first Staff Ride and Battle Book about the Battle of the Seelow Heights.Over the past five years he has transitioned his interests from land combat to naval operations, specifically the last year of Battle of the Atlantic that foreshadowed the evolution in undersea warfare. He has a number of books and articles on the topic of late war U-Boat operations and tactics forthcoming. ...more