Stalingrad
Written by David M. Glantz and Jonathan M. House
Narrated by Paul Woodson
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David M. Glantz
David M. Glantz is an American military historian and the editor of The Journal of Slavic Military Studies. Glantz holds 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 began his military career in 1963 as a field artillery officer from 1965 to 1969 and served in various assignments in the United States and Vietnam during the Vietnam War with the II Field Force Fire Support Coordination Element (FSCE) at the Plantation in Long Binh. After teaching history at the United States Military Academy from 1969 through 1973, he completed the army’s Soviet foreign area specialist program and became chief of Estimates in US Army Europe’s Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence. Upon his return to the United States in 1979, he became chief of research at the Army’s newly formed Combat Studies Institute at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and then Director of Soviet Army Operations at the Center for Land Warfare, U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. While at the College, Col. Glantz was instrumental in conducting the annual "Art of War" symposia which produced the best analysis of the conduct of operations on the Eastern Front during the Second World War in English to date. The symposia included attendance of several former German participants in the operations and resulted in publication of the seminal transcripts of proceedings. Returning to Fort Leavenworth in 1986, he helped found and later directed the U.S. Army’s Soviet (later Foreign) Military Studies Office (FMSO), where he remained until his retirement in 1993 with the rank of Colonel. In 1993 he established The Journal of Slavic Military Studies, a scholarly journal for which he still serves as chief editor, that covers military affairs in the states of Central and Eastern Europe as well as the former Soviet Union.In recognition of his work, he has received several awards, including the Society of Military History’s prestigious Samuel Eliot Morrison Prize for his contributions to the study of military history. Glantz is regarded by many as one of the best western military historians of the Soviet role in World War II. He lives with his wife Mary Ann Glantz in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5These guys are like Hekyll and Jekyll—they write everything together.
I have generally devoured all books about Stalingrad, starting with the definitive Beevor book, and I have to say . . . this one (an abridgment of a trilogy, I'm led to believe) is a tough, tough slog.
I can only imagine the grizzled authors, pipes clamped in square jaws, pushing around artillery pieces on a vast map table, muttering things like "My Third Battalion 7th Artillery Brigade 12th armoured platoon outflanks your Ninth Tank Army's 14th Shock Battalion's 98th Dragons Cavalry!"
And it's not going to become any more edifying than that. This is truly a military man's military man's grandson's history, by and for military men in a proud and hallowed . . . . you get the picture!
The portraits of any one of the prognosticators do not go any deeper than the cardboard needed to prop their tiny figurines up with on the map board but come to think of it, that's probably the way the authors wanted it.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Great book. Exceptional details that I have never read before. Recommend to history buffs.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The premier battle of Stalingrad narrative you will ever find!!!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This is a very dense book with lots of technical details. A map comes in handy.. and it helps to pay very close attention. The disaster at Stalingrad had reverberating repercussions and the Germans never recovered.