David Glantz | |
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| Born | January 11, 1942 Port Chester, New York, U.S. |
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| Alma mater | Virginia Military Institute University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
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| Main interests | Military historian (history of warfare,World War II,Soviet Union in World War II) |
| Notable works | Stalingrad trilogy (3 volumes) When Titans Clashed:How the Red Army Stopped Hitler and other works on the Red Army Journal of Slavic Military Studies |
| Notable ideas | Soviet operational art |
David M. Glantz | |
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| Allegiance | United States of America |
| Service/ | United States Army |
| Years of service | 1963–1993 |
| Rank | Colonel |
| Battles/wars | Vietnam War |
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 . [1]
Born in Port Chester,New York,Glantz received degrees in history from the Virginia Military Institute and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is a graduate of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College,Defense Language Institute,Institute for Russian and Eastern European Studies,and U.S. Army War College.
Glantz had a career of more than 30 years in the U.S. Army,served in the Vietnam War,and retired as a colonel in 1993. [2]
Glantz was a Mark W. Clark visiting professor of History at The Citadel,The Military College of South Carolina. [3]
Glantz is known as a military historian of the Soviet role in World War II. [4]
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. [5] Fellow historian Jonathan Haslam,in a review about his book on Operation Mars,criticized him for some of his stylistic choices,such as hypothetical thoughts and feelings of historical figures apart from references to documented sources. [6]
The Third Battle of Kharkov was a series of battles on the Eastern Front of World War II, undertaken by German Army Group South against the Soviet Red Army, around the city of Kharkov between 19 February and 15 March 1943. Known to the German side as the Donets Campaign, and in the Soviet Union as the Donbas and Kharkov operations, the German counterstrike led to the recapture of the cities of Kharkov and Belgorod.
Leonid Aleksandrovich Govorov was a Soviet military commander. Trained as an artillery officer, he joined the Red Army in 1920. He graduated from several Soviet military academies, including the Military Academy of Red Army General Staff. He participated in the Winter War of 1939–1940 against Finland as a senior artillery officer.
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The first Battle of Smolensk was a battle during the second phase of Operation Barbarossa, the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union, in World War II. It was fought around the city of Smolensk between 10 July and 10 September 1941, about 400 km (250 mi) west of Moscow. The Ostheer had advanced 500 km (310 mi) into the USSR in the 18 days after the invasion on 22 June 1941.
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The 11th Panzer Division was an armoured division in the German Army during World War II, established in 1940.
The 4th Panzer Army, operating as Panzer Group 4 from its formation on 15 February 1941 to 1 January 1942, was a German panzer formation during World War II. As a key armoured component of the Wehrmacht, the army took part in the crucial battles of the German-Soviet war of 1941–45, including Operation Barbarossa, the Battle of Moscow, the Battle of Stalingrad, the Battle of Kursk, and the 1943 Battle of Kiev.
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The 3rd Guards Tank Army was a tank army established by the Soviet Union's Red Army during World War II. The 3rd Tank Army was created in 1942 and fought in the southern areas of the Soviet Union and Poland, then in Germany and Czechoslovakia until the defeat of Germany in 1945. Postwar, the army served as occupation troops in East Germany, went through several name changes, and was finally deactivated in 1969.
The 51st Army was a field army of the Red Army that saw action against the Germans in World War II on both the southern and northern sectors of the front. The army participated in the Battle of the Kerch Peninsula between December 1941 and January 1942; it was destroyed in May 1942 with other Soviet forces when the Wehrmacht launched an operation to dislodge them from the peninsula. The army fought in the Battle of Stalingrad during the winter of 1942–43, helping to defeat German relief attempts. From late 1944 to the end of the war, the army fought in the final cutting-off of German forces in the Courland area next to the Baltic. Inactivated in 1945, the army was activated again in 1977 to secure Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands. Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the army continued in existence as a component of the Russian Ground Forces. The army was active during two periods from 1941 until 1997.
The 1st Mechanized Corps was a mechanized corps of the Red Army during World War II that formed twice.
The 2nd Mechanised Corps was a formation in the Soviet Red Army during the Second World War.
The 2nd Rifle Corps was an infantry corps of the Red Army during the interwar period and World War II, formed twice.
The 298th Rifle Division was an infantry division of the Soviet Union's Red Army during World War II, formed three times.
The 4th Guards Motor Rifle Division was a motorized infantry division of the Soviet Army during the Cold War.
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