David Glantz
| David Glantz | |
|---|---|
| Born |
January 11, 1942 Port Chester, New York, U.S. |
| Residence | United States |
| Academic work | |
| Main interests | Military historian (History of warfare, World War II, Soviet Union in World War II |
| Notable works | Stalingrad trilogy (volume 1, 2 and 3); 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 (born January 11, 1942 in Port Chester, New York) is an American military historian and the chief editor of the Journal of Slavic Military Studies.
Glantz received degrees in history from the Virginia Military Institute and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and 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. He entered active service with the United States Army in 1963.
He began his military career in 1963 as a field artillery officer from 1965 to 1969. He served in various assignments in the United States, and in Vietnam during the Vietnam War with the II Field Force Fire Support Coordination Element (FSCE) at the "Plantation" in Long Binh.
Glantz was a Mark W. Clark visiting professor of History at The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina.
Glantz is known as a military historian of the Soviet role in World War II. He is perhaps most associated with the thesis that World War II Soviet military history has been prejudiced in the West by its over-reliance on German oral and printed sources, without being balanced by a similar examination of Soviet source material; a more complete version of this thesis can be found in his paper "The Failures of Historiography: Forgotten Battles of the German-Soviet War (1941-1945)." Glantz has also, however, met with some criticism for his stylistic choices, such as inventing specific thoughts and feelings of historical figures without reference to documented sources.
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