Books written by David M. Glantz
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Zhukov's Greatest Defeat: The Red Army's Epic Disaster in Operation Mars, 1942
One of the least known stories of World War II, Operation Mars was a military disaster on an epic scale. Designed to dislodge the German Army from its position west...
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The Battle for Leningrad: 1941-1944
The German siege and Soviet defense of Leningrad in World War II was an epic struggle in an epic war, a drama of heroism and human misery unmatched in the...
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The Siege of Leningrad, 1941-1944: 900 Days of Terror
This military history describes the Seige of Leningrad during World War II. The author explains how Hitler commanded his troops to seal off Leningrad, then to weaken it by terror and starvation, and of the Soviet's frantic efforts to keep ...
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Barbarossa: Hitler's Invasion of Russia, 1941
On 22 June 1941 Hitler unleashed his forces on the Soviet Union. Spearheaded by four powerful Panzer groups and protected by an impenetrable curtain of air support, the seemingly invincible...
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The Soviet Airborne Experience
This study examines the experiences of the Red Army in World War II and traces Soviet airborne theory and practice both before and since the Great Patriotic War of 1941-45.
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The Evolution of Soviet Operational Art, 1927-1991: The Documentary Basis: Volume 1 (Operational Art 1927-1964)
This collection of texts has been taken from formerly classified material in the official Red Army General Staff journal 'Military Thought'.
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Red Storm Over the Balkans: The Failed Soviet Invasion of Romania, Spring 1944
Germany's Eastern Front in World War II saw many campaigns and battles that have been "forgotten" by a Soviet Union that tried to hide its military failures. The Red Army's...
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Barbarossa Derailed: The Battle for Smolensk 10 July-10 September 1941: Volume 1: The German Advance, the Encirclement Battle and the...
Structure and contents of Volume 1: Within the context of a fresh appreciation of Hitler's Plan Barbarossa, this volume reviews the first two weeks of Operation Barbarossa and then describes in unprecedented detail: Introduction: Plan ...
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The Evolution of Soviet Operational Art, 1927-1991: The Documentary Basis: Volume 2 (1965-1991)
The Soviet military concept of operational art and the associated theories such as "war of annihilations", "deep battle", and "deep operations" have been observed by the West since World War II. The Soviet government hid their military ...
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Soviet Military Deception in the Second World War
Published in 1989, Soviet Military Deception in the Second World War is a valuable contribution to the field of Military & Strategic Studies.
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The Battle for Kursk, 1943: The Soviet General Staff Study
As a treasure trove of fresh material, this book addresses aspects of the Battle of Kursk that have puzzled commentators since 1943.
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The Battle for Kursk, 1943: The Soviet General Staff Study
This volume offers detailed information about the Red Army's preparation for and conduct of the Battle of Kursk, the nature of the war on the German Eastern Front, and on the range of horrors that have characterized warfare in the 20th ...
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The Military Strategy of the Soviet Union: A History
Armed revolution and civil war gave birth to the Soviet Union, world War II propelled it to global pre-eminence, and the Cold War contributed to the Soviet Union's demise.
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Barbarossa Derailed: The Battle for Smolensk, 10 July-10 September 1941
The series will consist of a detailed two-volume chronological narrative of the course of operations, accompanied by a third volume, containing an extensive collection of specific orders and reports translated verbatim from Russian, and a ...
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Barbarossa Derailed: The German offensives on the flanks and the third Soviet counteroffensive, 25 August-10 September 1941
The series will consist of a detailed two-volume chronological narrative of the course of operations, accompanied by a third volume, containing an extensive collection of specific orders and reports translated verbatim from Russian, and a ...
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The Initial Period of War on the Eastern Front, 22 June - August 1941: Proceedings Fo the Fourth Art of...
Beginning with Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, this volume draws upon eye-witness German accounts supplemented with German archival and detailed Soviet materials.
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Endgame at Stalingrad: Book Two: December 1942–February 1943, The Stalingrad Trilogy, Volume 3
The answers Glantz provides, embedded in a fully-realized account of the endgame at Stalingrad, make this book the last word on one of history’s epic clashes.
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The Battle of Kursk
Prokhorovka here is not a well-organized set piece but a confused series of engagements and hasty attacks, with each side committing its forces piecemeal.
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When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army Stopped Hitler
In the twenty years since When Titans Clashed was published significant new sources of information on the Soviet-Nazi war have come to light and are now incorporated into this new and expanded edition.
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The Siege of Leningrad, 1941-1944: 900 Days of Terror
Leningrad (now reverted to its pre-1914 name of St Petersburg) was surrounded by German forces in 1941 and cut off from the rest of Russia.