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Colossus Reborn: The Red Army at War (Modern War Studies (Hardcover)) Hardcover – March 25, 2005

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In Stumbling Colossus, David Glantz explored why the Red Army was unprepared for the German blitzkrieg that nearly destroyed it and left more than four million of its soldiers dead by the end of 1941. In Colossus Reborn he recounts the miraculous resurrection of the Red Army, which, with a dazzling display of military strategy and operational prowess, stopped the Wehrmacht in its tracks and turned the tide of war.

A major achievement in the recovery and preservation of an entire nation’s military experience, Colossus Reborn is marked by Glantz’s unrivaled access to and use of Soviet archival sources. This allows him to illuminate not only Russian victories in the Battles of Moscow, Stalingrad, and Kursk, but also to rescue a host of major “forgotten battles,” many of which had been suppressed to preserve reputations and national pride. As he reveals in unprecedented detail, disastrous defeats vied with resounding victories throughout the early years of the conflict, as the Red Army struggled to find itself in the “Great Patriotic War."

Beyond the battles themselves, Glantz also presents an in-depth portrait of the Red Army as an evolving military institution. Assessing more clearly than ever before the army’s size, strength, and force structure, he provides keen insights into its doctrine, strategy, tactics, weaponry, training, officer corps, and political leadership. In the process, he puts a human face on the Red Army’s commanders and soldiers, including women and those who served in units—security (NKVD), engineer, railroad, auto-transport, construction, and penal forces—that have till now remained poorly understood.

The world’s top authority on the Soviet military, Glantz has produced a remarkable study that adds immeasurably to our understanding of the one part of World War II that’s still struggling to emerge from the shadows of history.

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Praise for David Glantz:

"A superb historian and a brilliant detective."-New York Review of Books

"Indisputably the West's foremost expert on the subject."-The Atlantic

"Glantz's unrivalled command of Soviet sources has produced a body of work that has fundamentally revised our knowledge of the Eastern Front in World War II." -Slavic Review

"The world's top scholar of the Soviet-German War."-Journal of Military History

About the Author

David M. Glantz is founder and former director of the U.S. Army's Foreign Military Studies Office. His many books include Stumbling Colossus, Zhukov's Greatest Defeat, The Battle of Kursk, The Battle for Leningrad, and When Titans Clashed.

Series: Modern War Studies (Hardcover)
Hardcover: 828 pages
Publisher: University of Kansas Press; Third Edition edition (March 25, 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0700613536
ISBN-13: 978-0700613533
Product Dimensions: 6.3 x 2.2 x 9.3 inches
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Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,107,826 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #2291 in Books > History > Military > Strategy
- #2802 in Books > History > Asia > Russia
- #9944 in Books > History > Military > World War II

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glantz shows genius as usual

ByMichael Buckon April 24, 2008

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David Glantz may not write in the most exciting way or use tons of hyperbole or focus alot on the human facet of his stories on the Russo-German war, however as far as wealth of information on the Soviet side of things go there is no one better equipped in the western world to write about The Great Patriotic War. His access to Soviet military information is unprecedented and his attention to detail of the military operations second to none. When I first began reading Glantz's tomes on the war I had preconceived notions about this conflict. If Hitler had stayed on course for Moscow after the battle of Smolensk, if he had not split Operation Blau into a Stalingrad and a Caucauses dual front and kept those troops together for a concerted drive to the Volga, if Barbarossa had been launched in May instead of late June, if the Rasputista and bitter Russian winter had not intervened, if if if. And i truly believed Hitler could and should have won this war. After starting on Glantz's books around the year 2000 or so, and truly realizing the awesome potential in manpower and equipment the Soviets had, and realizing in these readings how unprepared materially and logistically the Germans were to fight this war my whole mindset has changed. I believe even if the Germans had taken Moscow Russia would still have won this war. Other then the Germans developing atomic weapons before anyone I have radically altered my view on Germany's chances here. The Soviet Union was destined to win this war no matter what the cost. Barbarossa more then anything else, was Hitler's greatest mistake in the war. I owe this new view to the works of David Glantz. His information is incredible, his summaries superlative, his conclusions inescapable. Dry and technical it may be, but for my money there is no better writer on The Great Patriotic War then David Glantz. Remember, Germany lost the war and 90 percent of her casualties on the Eastern front. Remember, the Soviet Union lost 27 million dead and most of her agricultural and economic bases and STILL won this war. She probably could have done so, although at even greater cost, without a second front in Italy in 1943, and in France in 1944. The Russian contribution to World War II must not be downplayed in the west. The war against Germany was primarily a Russian one, and David Glantz deserves accolades for being one of very few western writers to acknowledge this fact.

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Exhaustively detailed study with no equal

ByDimitrioson March 11, 2005

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David Glantz is today the top Western authority on the Red Army and the Great patriotic War and this massive volume is the latest product of a long process which saw his works to become ever lenghtier, more analytical, more precise and less readable unfortunately. The book leaves no unturned stone in the sparsely explored field of Red Army in the period 1941-43 and is full of statistics, tables, details and expert analysis. Although some of the chapters present little interest, like those of the rear support services and other have been the subject of thorough studies (like the tank formations and the artillery), I found the most interesting part to be that of the top military leadership and the fate of the various commanders from the level of the Corps upwards. One must be warned though that this book is not for the layman, nor for someone who has only a passing interest in the subject. For readers that want a more readable work on the Red Army I would suggest Mackintosh's "Juggernaut" and for those that love the wealth of details and are fascinated by the hard facts of statistics but do not want to pore through 700 pages, Walter Dunn's excellent book "Hitler's Nemesis: The Red Army 1933-45".

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Shows the organization of these army in detail during WW 2

Byscott baileyon April 19, 2014

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After reading this book I was mazed at the organization of this army. The ablities the organize units on such a massive scale is quiet the accomplishment. All units and the evolution of the army is well documented and shows the army on going issue of up-grading its formation to standard levels great read with a lot of charts.

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Red Army at a Glantz

ByMark M. Szymcikon June 26, 2006

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Glantz does his usual excellent job on the Soviet military in World War II. He covers the campaigns, and the structure and development of the red army during the early part of the war. Separating much of the formation, commander and OoB material into the companion volume is actually a plus. Both volumes are easier to handle becuase of the size and it is easier to use two books to cross reference material.

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Five Stars

Bynoelon January 3, 2015

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I enjoy all his books,only sorry you cannot supply " islands of fire "

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The book is a companion volume to ‘Stumbling Colossus and should be read in sequence. Focus of the study is the transformation of Red Army into a powerful war machine.Read more

Published on May 27, 2015 by Karun Mukherji

An excellent book and resource

Glantz's book is a must read for any serious student of the Eastern Front in World War II. While it may be long and dry, it covers the Soviet Army at an important time in the...Read more

Published on July 27, 2008 by Daniel Carey

Nearly Perfect

Although hundreds of histories of Soviet-German war have been published in the last decade or so, they have for the most part either focused on large-scale operations, told the...Read more

Published on June 23, 2007 by S. Heminger

Dry and long - but hey, isn't that why we buy it?

So, this is something that's only for professionals and hardcore fanatics, but it is highly recommended for them.Read more

Published on June 18, 2007 by Gabor Laszlo Varkonyi

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