Dr David Hall, DPhil (Oxon), FRHistS
Author and Historian
David Ian Hall, DPhil (Oxon), FRHistS
author, historian, and research fellow
David Hall has a DPhil in modern history from the University of Oxford and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He specialises in 19th and 20th century German history, the history of war in the 20th century, and air power. His published works include First and Second World War topics; Strategy for Victory: The Development of British Tactical Air Power, 1919-1943 (Praeger, 2008) was selected for the Chief of the Air Staff’s Reading List. His most recent book is Hitler’s Munich: The Capital of the Nazi Movement (Pen & Sword, 2020).
Dr Hall has enjoyed a long career with the Defence Studies Department, King’s College London, at the Joint Services Command and Staff College, part of the UK Defence Academy. He has taught on the Higher Command and Staff Course, the Advance Command and Staff Course, and the Initial Command and Staff Courses for the Royal Navy, the Army, and the Royal Air Force. His special subjects include: ‘Operation Merkur’ – the German Invasion of Crete, May 1941; the German Way of War; and Hitler Studies. Prior to joining King’s, he was an Assistant Professor in the History Department at the Royal Military College of Canada. Currently he is a Visiting Senior Research Fellow in the Defence Studies Department at King’s College London.
Dr Hall has led more than 100 battlefield tours and staff rides for UK, Canadian, and US armed forces, and NATO. He has led civilian and military groups all over Europe studying the main campaigns of the Napoleonic Wars, Franco-Prussian War, First and Second World Wars. He has also led cultural-political study tours in Munich, Berchtesgaden, Nürnberg, and Berlin.
