When Titans Clashed, Jonathan M. House
When Titans Clashed, Jonathan M. House
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When Titans Clashed
How the Red Army Stopped Hitler

Author: Jonathan M. House, David M. Glantz

Narrator: James Romick

Unabridged: 17 hr 49 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 03/15/2022


Synopsis

Revised and updated to reflect recent Russian and Western scholarship on the subject, this new edition maintains the 1995 original's distinction as a crucial volume in the history of World War II and of the Soviet Union and the most informed and compelling perspective on one of the greatest military confrontations of all time.

In 1941, when Pearl Harbor shattered America's peacetime pretensions, the German blitzkrieg had already blasted the Red Army back to Moscow. Yet, less than four years later, the Soviet hammer-and-sickle flew above the ruins of Berlin, stark symbol of a miraculous comeback that destroyed the Germany Army and put an end to Hitler's imperial designs. Drawing on the massive and unprecedented release of Soviet archival documents, David Glantz and noted military historian Jonathan House expand and elaborate our picture of the Soviet war effort.

Rafts of newly available official directives, orders, and reports reveal the true nature and extraordinary scale of Soviet military operations as they swept across the one thousand miles from Moscow to Berlin, featuring stubborn defenses and monumental offensives and counteroffensives and ultimately costing the two sides combined a staggering twenty million casualties.

About Jonathan M. House

Professor emeritus of Military History, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, Jonathan M. House is the author of Combined Arms Warfare in the Twentieth Century.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jim on November 15, 2012

Actually four and a half stars. We have been trained to think of World War Two as essentially a Western war, with the Russian contribution somehow being amorphous, off line, and, to to speak, off-screen. It might not be a bad idea to begin reading this book with Table E on page 307, which shows the W......more

Goodreads review by Creighton on July 08, 2021

David Glantz is the foremost historian when it comes to the history of the Eastern Front of the Second World War. All I can give him and Jonathan House is nothing but praise for their work. A youtuber by the username of TIK (whose extensive World War Two videos inspired me to buy this book) said “We......more

Goodreads review by Sean on March 12, 2022

This is considered a pivotal book in the understanding of the Eastern Front of World War II. Glantz and House provide an overall narrative of the strategic and operational course of the fighting, mostly from a Soviet point of view but with keen insights on German strengths and weaknesses in each pha......more

Goodreads review by Walter on April 09, 2016

Glantz's "When titans clashed" is an incredible book based on primary sources, mainly soviet fonts, newly avaliable russian resources. The author writes on concise form the war on the eastern front, provides an extensive explanation of plans and preparations; based on staff reports of high command s......more

Goodreads review by Josh on March 28, 2021

This book is dry and methodical with its facts, and i sometimes wished the tone more reflected the titanic struggle of humanity and ideologies that is being covered. But the sheer amount of facts give you a very sober understanding of everything that actually happened from 1941-1945 from a mostly bi......more