Jonathan M. House (born June 22, 1950) is an American
military historian
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and author. He is a professor emeritus of military history at the
United States Army Command and General Staff College
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. House is a leading authority on
Soviet military history
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, with an emphasis upon
World War II
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and the Soviet influence upon modern operational doctrine. Together with
David Glantz
David M. Glantz (born January 11, 1942) is an American military historian known for his books on the Red Army during World War II and as the chief editor of ''The Journal of Slavic Military Studies''.
Born in Port Chester, New York, Glantz r ...
, he wrote multiple books on the
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 ...
operations on the
Eastern Front, most notably ''When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army Stopped Hitler''.
Education and career
A 1971 graduate of
Hamilton College
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, in 1975 House completed his history doctorate and was commissioned out of Army ROTC at the University of Michigan. After numerous courses at the
U.S. Army Intelligence Center and School (1978, 1979–80), he completed master's degrees in strategy (Command and General Staff College, 1984) and intelligence (King's College London, 2017). As a junior officer, he taught at the army's Armor School, Intelligence Center and School, and Command and General Staff College.
House served as an intelligence analyst for the
Joint Chiefs of Staff
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at
The Pentagon
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during both the 1991 and 2003 conflicts with Iraq. He retired as a colonel of military intelligence. House is the author of ''Toward Combined Arms Warfare: a Survey of 20th-century Tactics, Doctrine, and Organization'' (1984) ''A Military History of the Cold War'' (2 vols, 2012 and 2020), ''Controlling Paris: Armed Forces and Counter-Revolution, 1789-1848'' (2014). and ''Intelligence and the State'' (2022).'
Historian of German-Soviet War, 1941–1945
Together with
David Glantz
David M. Glantz (born January 11, 1942) is an American military historian known for his books on the Red Army during World War II and as the chief editor of ''The Journal of Slavic Military Studies''.
Born in Port Chester, New York, Glantz r ...
, House co-authored several books on the military history of the Eastern Front, including ''The Battle of Kursk'' (1999); ''To the Gates of Stalingrad: Soviet-German combat operations, April–August 1942'' (2009); ''Armageddon in Stalingrad: September–November 1942'' (2009); and ''Endgame at Stalingrad'' (2014). In 2017, House was the primary author of a consolidated volume entitled simply ''Stalingrad.'' All books were published by the
University Press of Kansas
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.
Their first collaboration, ''When Titans Clashed'', was described upon initial publication in 1995 in an
H-Net
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review as "belong
ngin every college library and on the shelves of all World War II historians". The book was reissued in 2015 in an expanded edition; it was described by the military historian
Steven Zaloga
Steven J. Zaloga (born February 1, 1952) is an American author and defense consultant. He received a bachelor's degree '' cum laude'' at Union College and a master's degree at Columbia University, both in history.
He has published many books ...
as "the best overview of the combat record of the Red Army in the Second World War".
[Zaloga, Steven (2010)]
"Companion to the Red Army 1939-1945"
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References
External links
*, via the official channel of Dole Institute of Politics
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*, via the official channel of the Dole Institute of Politics
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German industrial effort: Concentration on the war in the West
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1950 births
Living people
American military historians
American male non-fiction writers