David Glantz | |
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| Born | January 11, 1942 Port Chester, New York, U.S. |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Virginia Military Institute University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| Academic work | |
| 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]