David M. Glantz (born January 11, 1942) is an American
military historian
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known for his books on the
Red Army
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during
World War II
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and as the
chief editor
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of ''
The Journal of Slavic Military Studies
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''.
Born in
Port Chester
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,
New York
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, Glantz received degrees in history from the
Virginia Military Institute
la, Consilio et Animis (on seal)
, mottoeng = "In peace a glorious asset, In war a tower of strength""By courage and wisdom" (on seal)
, established =
, type = Public senior military college
, accreditation = SACS
, endowment = $696.8 mill ...
and the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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. He is a graduate of the
U.S. Army Command and General Staff College
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,
Defense Language Institute
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, Institute for Russian and Eastern European Studies, and
U.S. Army War College
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.
Glantz had a career of more than 30 years in the
U.S. Army
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, served in the
Vietnam War
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, and retired as a
colonel
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in 1993.
Teaching career
Glantz was a Mark W. Clark visiting professor of History at
The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina
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.
Activity after retirement
Glantz is known as a military historian of the Soviet role in
World War II
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He has argued that the view of the Soviet Union's involvement in the war has been prejudiced in the West, which relies too much on German oral and printed sources without being balanced by a similar examination of Soviet source material. He has been criticized for some of his stylistic choices, such as inventing specific thoughts and feelings of historical figures without reference to documented sources, in a review about his book on
Operation Mars
Operation Mars (Russian: Операция «Марс»), also known as the Second Rzhev-Sychevka Offensive Operation (Russian: Вторая Ржевско-Сычёвская наступательная операция), was the codename fo ...
.
Awards and honors
*2000
Samuel Eliot Morison Prize
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for lifetime achievement given by the
Society for Military History
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* ''The History of Soviet Airborne Forces'' (1994)
* ''Soviet Documents on the Use of War Experience: The Winter Campaign, 1941–1942'' (Cass Series on the Soviet Study of War, 2), David M. Glantz (Editor), Harold S. Orenstein (Editor)
* When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army Stopped Hitler ' (1995)
* ''The Initial Period of War on the Eastern Front, 22 June – August 1941: Proceedings of the Fourth Art of War Symposium'', Garmisch, October 1987 (Cass Series on Soviet Military Experience, 2), edited by Colonel David M. Glantz, Routledge (1997)
* ''Stumbling Colossus: The Red Army on the Eve of World War'' (1998)
* ''Kharkov 1942: Anatomy of a Military Disaster'' (1998)
** Reviewed by
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in ''
The Journal of Military History
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'', Vol. 63, No. 2 (April 1999), pp. 482–483, , .
* ''Zhukov's Greatest Defeat: The Red Army's Epic Disaster in Operation Mars, 1942'' (1999)
* Foreword to ''Forging Stalin's Army: Marshal Tukhachevsky and the Politics of Military Innovation'' by Sally Stoecker
* ''The Battle of Kursk'' (1999)
* ''Barbarossa: Hitler's Invasion of Russia 1941'' (2001)
* ''Captured Soviet Generals: The Fate of Soviet Generals Captured by the Germans, 1941–1945'', Aleksander A. Maslov, edited and translated by David M. Glantz and Harold S. Orenstein,
Routledge
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; first edition (2001),
* ''The Siege of Leningrad, 1941–1944: 900 Days of Terror'' (2001)
* ''Belorussia 1944: The Soviet General Staff Study'', Soviet Union Raboche-Krestianskaia Krasnaia Armiia Generalnyi Shtab, Glantz, David M. (Editor), Orenstein, Harold S. (Editor),
Frank Cass & Co
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, 2001
* ''The Battle for Leningrad, 1941–1944'' (2002)
* ''Before Stalingrad: Barbarossa, Hitler's Invasion of Russia 1941'' (Battles & Campaigns),
Tempus
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, 2003
* ''Battle for the Ukraine: The Korsun'-Shevchenkovskii Operation'' (Soviet (Russian) Study of War), Frank Cass Publishers, 2003
* ''The Soviet Strategic Offensive in Manchuria, 1945: August Storm'' (2003)
* ''Atlas and Operational Summary: The Border Battles, 22 June–1 July 1941''; daily situation maps prepared by Michael Avanzini, Publisher: David Glantz, 2003
* ''Hitler and His Generals: Military Conferences 1942–1945: The First Complete Stenographic Record of the Military Situation Conferences, from Stalingrad to Berlin'', Helmut Heiber and David M. Glantz editors (English edition), Enigma Books; (2005)
* ''Colossus Reborn: The Red Army at War, 1941–1943'' (2005)
* ''Companion to Colossus Reborn: Key Documents and Statistics'' (2005)
* ''Red Storm Over the Balkans: The Failed Soviet Invasion of Romania, Spring 1944'' (2006)
* ''Stalingrad: How the Red Army Survived the German Onslaught'', Casemate Publishers and Book Distributors, Jones, Michael K. (Author), Glantz, David M. (Foreword) 2007
* ''To the Gates of Stalingrad: Soviet-German Combat Operations, April–August 1942'' (The Stalingrad Trilogy, Volume 1) (Modern War Studies) with Jonathan M. House,
University Press of Kansas
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, 2009
* ''Armageddon in Stalingrad: September–November 1942'' (The Stalingrad Trilogy, Volume 2) (Modern War Studies) with Jonathan M. House, University Press of Kansas, 2009
* ''Endgame at Stalingrad: November 1942'' (The Stalingrad Trilogy, Volume 3, Book 1) (Modern War Studies) with Jonathan M. House, University Press of Kansas, 2014
* ''Endgame at Stalingrad: November 1942'' (The Stalingrad Trilogy, Volume 3, Book 2) (Modern War Studies) with Jonathan M. House, University Press of Kansas, 2014
* ''After Stalingrad: The Red Army's Winter Offensive 1942–1943''
* ''Barbarossa Derailed: The Battle for Smolensk, 10 July–10 September 1941 Volume 1'', Helion & Company, 2010;
* ''Barbarossa Derailed: The Battle for Smolensk, 10 July–10 September 1941 Volume 2'', Helion & Company, 2012;
* ''Barbarossa Derailed: The Battle for Smolensk, 10 July–10 September 1941 Volume 3'', Helion & Company, 2014;
* with Mary E. Glantz. ''The Battle for Belorussia: The Red Army's Forgotten Campaign of October 1943 – April 1944'', University Press of Kansas, 2016;
* ''Operation Don's Main Attack: The Soviet Southern Front's Advance on Rostov, January–February 1943'', University Press of Kansas, 2018
* ''Operation Don's Left Wing: The Trans-Caucasus Front's Pursuit of the First Panzer Army, November 1942–February 1943'', University Press of Kansas, 2019
See also
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Battle of Kursk
The Battle of Kursk was a major World War II Eastern Front engagement between the forces of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union near Kursk in the southwestern USSR during late summer 1943; it ultimately became the largest tank battle in history. ...
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Eastern Front (World War II)
The Eastern Front of World War II was a Theater (warfare), theatre of conflict between the European Axis powers against the Soviet Union (USSR), Polish Armed Forces in the East, Poland and other Allies of World War II, Allies, which encom ...
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Operation Barbarossa
Operation Barbarossa (german: link=no, Unternehmen Barbarossa; ) was the invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany and many of its Axis allies, starting on Sunday, 22 June 1941, during the Second World War. The operation, code-named after ...
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Red Army
The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army (Russian: Рабо́че-крестья́нская Кра́сная армия),) often shortened to the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and, after ...
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Russian military deception
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Siege of Leningrad
The siege of Leningrad (russian: links=no, translit=Blokada Leningrada, Блокада Ленинграда; german: links=no, Leningrader Blockade; ) was a prolonged military blockade undertaken by the Axis powers against the Soviet city of L ...
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Slavistics
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Soviet offensive plans controversy
The Soviet offensive plans controversy was a debate among historians in the late 20th and early 21st centuries as to whether Joseph Stalin had planned to launch an attack against Nazi Germany in the summer of 1941. The controversy started with Vi ...