Jonathan House

PhD
Jonathan House
Born 1950 (1950) (age 66)
U.S.
Residence United States
Academic work
Era 20th century
Institutions United States Army Command and General Staff College
Main interests Military history: World War II; Cold War
Notable works Books on the Soviet-German war

Jonathan M. House (born 1950) is an American military historian and author. He is a professor of military history at the U.S. Army United States Army Command and General Staff College. House is a leading authority on Soviet military history, with an emphasis upon World War II and the Soviet influence upon modern operational doctrine. Together with David Glantz, he wrote multiple books on the Red Army operations on the Eastern Front, most notably the 1995 work When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army Stopped Hitler.[1]

Career

House is a retired colonel; he served as an intelligence analyst for the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the Pentagon during both the 1991 and 2003 conflicts with Iraq. He is the author of Toward Combined Arms Warfare: a Survey of 20th-century Tactics, Doctrine, and Organization (1984) and A Military History of the Cold War, 1944-1962 (2012).[2]

Together with David Glantz, House co-authored several books on the military history of the Eastern Front, including The Battle of Kursk (1999); To the Gates of Stalingrad: Soviet-German combat operations, April-August 1942 (2009); Armageddon in Stalingrad: September-November 1942 (2009); and Endgame at Stalingrad (2014). All books were published by the University Press of Kansas.[3] Their first collaboration, When Titans Clashed, was described upon initial publication in 1995 in an H-Net review as "belong[ing] in every college library and on the shelves of all World War II historians".[4] The book was reissued in 2015 in an expanded edition; it was described by the military historian Steven Zaloga as "the best overview of the combat record of the Red Army in the Second World War".[5]

References

  1. ↑ Figes, Orlando (18 February 1996): "The Eastern Front", The New York Times
  2. ↑ WorldCat Identities
  3. ↑ WorldCat Identities
  4. ↑ Howard D. Grier (1996): Book Review: David Glantz, Jonathan House. When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army Stopped Hitler, H-Net
  5. ↑ Zaloga, Steven (2010): "Companion to the Red Army 1939-1945"
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