David M. Glantz

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David M. Glantz (born January 11, 1942 in Port Chester , New York ) is an American military historian and editor of the Journal of Slavic Military Studies .

Life

Glantz received degrees in history from the Virginia Military Institute and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and he studied Russian at US Army Command and General Staff College and attended US Army War College . In 1963 he began his active service in the US Army and served in Vietnam as an artillery officer and artillery observer. Glantz was a member of the history faculty at the United States Military Academy from 1969 to 1973 . He was the founder and most recently director of the US Army Foreign Military Studies Office at Fort Leavenworth . In 1987 he founded The Journal of Soviet Military Studies . In 1993 he retired from active service with the rank of colonel. In the same year he renamed the journal he edited The Journal of Slavic Military Studies .

Glantz is regarded by many as a leading military historian regarding the role of the Soviet Union in World War II. His name is closely linked to the thesis that the military-historical view of the Soviet Union in World War II is too biased. Glantz sees the reason for this primarily in the predominant use of German sources, whether oral or written. In comparison, there is a lack of adequate processing of Soviet material. He describes this in more detail in The Failures of Historiography: Forgotten Battles of the German-Soviet War (1941–1945) .

Glantz is also known as an opponent of Viktor Suvorov's theses about the alleged attack plans of the Soviet Union against the Axis powers, which he invalidated in the book Stumbling Colossus on the basis of extensive sources and statistics.

He lives in Carlisle with his wife . His daughter Mary E. Glantz is also a historian, she wrote FDR And The Soviet Union: The President's Battles Over Foreign Policy , ISBN 070061365X .

Glantz is a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences . In 1996 he received The Arthur Goodzeit Book Award and in 2000 the Samuel Eliot Morison Prize . In 2009 he received the Special Award from the New York Military Affairs Symposium . For 2020, Glantz was awarded the Pritzker Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing .

Fonts

General about the war between the German Reich and the Soviet Union 1941–1945

  • with Jonathan House: When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army Stopped Hitler , University Press of Kansas, Lawrence (Kansas), 1995, ISBN 0-7006-0717-X .
  • Stumbling Colossus: The Red Army on the Eve of World War , University Press of Kansas, 1998, ISBN 0-7006-0879-6 .
  • Co-author in Keith E. Bonn (Ed.): Slaughterhouse. Handbook of the Eastern Front , The Aberjona Press 2004
  • Colossus Reborn: The Red Army at War, 1941-1943 , University Press of Kansas, 2005, ISBN 0-7006-1353-6 .
  • Companion to Colossus Reborn: Key Documents and Statistics , University Press of Kansas, 2005, ISBN 0-7006-1359-5 .

Individual battles and operations in the German Reich-Soviet Union war 1941–1945

  • From the Don to the Dnepr: Soviet Offensive Operations, December 1942-August 1943 , London, Portland, F. Cass, 1991, ISBN 0-7146-3350-X .
  • Kharkov 1942: Anatomy of a Military Disaster , 1998, ISBN 1-885119-54-2 .
  • Zhukov's Greatest Defeat: The Red Army's Epic Disaster in Operation Mars, 1942 , University Press of Kansas, 1999, ISBN 0-7006-0944-X .
  • with Jonathan House: The Battle of Kursk , University of Kansas Press, Lawrence / Kansas 1999, ISBN 0-7006-0978-4 .
  • Barbarossa: Hitler's Invasion of Russia 1941 , Stroud (Gloucestershire), Tempus 2001, ISBN 0-7524-1979-X .
  • The Siege of Leningrad, 1941–1944: 900 Days of Terror , Osceola / Wisconsin, MBI Publishing, 2001, ISBN 0-7603-0941-8 .
  • The Battle for Leningrad, 1941-1944 , University Press of Kansas, 2002, ISBN 0-7006-1208-4 .
  • August Storm: The Soviet Strategic Offensive in Manchuria, 1945 , Fort Leavenworth, Combat Studies Institute, US Army Command and General Staff College, United States Government Printing Office , Washington DC, 1984, London, Portland, Frank Cass 2003, ISBN 0-7146 -5279-2 .
  • Red Storm Over the Balkans: The Failed Soviet Invasion of Romania, Spring 1944 , University Press of Kansas, 2007, ISBN 0-7006-1465-6 .
  • with Jonathan House : To the gates of Stalingrad. Soviet-German combat operations, April-August 1942 , University Press of Kansas 2009 (first volume of a trilogy about Stalingrad)
  • with Jonathan House: Armageddon in Stalingrad. September-November 1942 , University Press of Kansas, 2009 (second volume of a trilogy on Stalingrad)
  • Barbarossa Derailed: The Battle for Smolensk 10 July – 10 September 1941, Volume 1: The German Advance to Smolensk, the Encirclement Battle, and the Fir , 2010, Volume 2 2012, Volume 3 2014 (Volume 1–3 of 4 planned volumes)

Special studies on the Soviet Army

  • The Military Strategy of the Soviet Union: A History , London, Portland (Oregon), F. Cass, 1992, ISBN 0-7146-3435-2 .
  • Soviet Military Operational Art: in pursuit of deep battle , London, Portland, F. Cass, 1991
  • The History of Soviet Airborne Forces , Ilford, Portland (Oregon), F. Cass, 1994, ISBN 0-7146-3483-2 .
  • Soviet Airborne Experience, Combat Studies Institute , Fort Leavenworth, 1985
  • The Role of Intelligence in Soviet Military Strategy in World War II , Novato (California), Presidio 1990
  • Soviet Military Intelligence in War , F. Cass 1990
  • Soviet Military Deception in the Second World War , London, Totowa (New Jersey), F. Cass 1989, ISBN 0-7146-3347-X .
  • Soviet Conduct of Tactical Maneuver: spearhead of the offensive , London, Portland, F. Cass 1991

Otherwise

  • Editor: Initial period on the eastern front, June 22 - August 1941 , Proceedings of the 4th Art of War Symposium, Garmisch, 1987, F. Cass 1993
  • Co-author with Sampo Ahto a . a .: Operational idea and its basics. Selected operations of the Second World War , Herford, Bonn, ES Mitter 1989

Glantz was also the translator and editor of various Russian documents and reports on the Second World War (diaries and records of soldiers, the Soviet General Staff Studies for the Battle of Kursk in 1943, Belarus and Lvov in 1944, Korsun-Shevshenkovskii Operation) and translated Russian books (such as those of Alexander Maslow on fallen and captured Soviet generals).

Studies for the US Army

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Glantz, Col. David M. "The Failures of Historiography: Forgotten Battles of the German-Soviet War (1941–1945)" ( Memento of the original from December 16, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and still Not checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / fmso.leavenworth.army.mil
personal data
SURNAME Glantz, David M.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American military historian
DATE OF BIRTH January 11, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Port Chester , New York