News from Colonel David Glantz
8 December 1999

David Glantz -- prolific author of Russian front volumes including this year's The Battle of Kursk, Zhukov's Greatest Defeat, and The Battle for Kursk, 1943: The Soviet General Staff Study -- tells us that due to increased family responsibilities he has decided to cut back on his writing, translating, editing, and self-publishing workload.

"Given my reduced work schedule, I have indefinitely postponed further work on follow-on volumes to Kursk. This includes the planned studies on Moscow, Stalingrad, Belorussia, and Berlin. Time permitting, I do intend to add a third volume to my study of the Red Army in 1943 (on people and the human dimension), but, for the time being, will produce the new volume only in self-published format.

"In addition to translating and editing A. A. Maslov's third book (on suppressed Soviet generals), I will devote much of my time and efforts to completing my multi-volume study on "forgotten battles," if only for my own edification. My desire is to complete the full mosaic of wartime operations to my satisfaction and, while doing so, to surface some of the newly released Soviet documentation. Volume four of this series (on the winter campaign of 1942-43) is now complete at over 400 pages. Since these operations are (inevitably) more numerous and complex, volumes five through eight will take considerable time to complete. I have just began volume five and hope to complete it by spring 2000. Because of their complexity, all of these will remain in self-published format.

"While satisfying these minimal aims, with Harold Orenstein's help, I will continue to attempt to produce newly translated and edited editions of the Soviet General staff studies (in the fashion of Kursk)."