David M. Glantz is a retired U.S. Army colonel and one of the foremost Western historians of the Soviet Red Army and the Eastern Front during the Second World War.
Glantz earned a degree in history and the designation of Distinguished Military Graduate from the Virginia Military Institute, in June 1963, and, after accepting a commission as Second Lieutenant of artillery in the Regular Army, he earned a master’s degree in modern European history, at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, in June 1965. He is a graduate of the Defense Language Institute (for Russian) in Monterey, California, and the U.S. Army Institute for Advanced Russian and Eastern European Studies, at Garmisch, Federal Republic of Germany.
Glantz founded, and was editor of, the Journal of Soviet (Slavic in 1989)Military Studies, in 1988, a position he held until January 2018. He is a member of the Academy of Natural Sciences of the Russian Federation and a 2015 recipient of the Russian Federation Ministry of Defense’s medal “For the Strengthening of Military Cooperation” [Za ukreplenie boevogo sodruzhestva].
In 2000, he received the Society for Military History’s Samuel Eliot Morison Prize for his work in the field of Soviet military history. In 2020, he received the Pritzker Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing.
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