When Titans Clashed by Glantz

How many of you have read this book and what do you think of it?

I'm still in the first quarter but I can't say I like all of it so far. Since he begins by saying that he makes no attempt to be objective I might be a little biased already, but I've found several mistakes on the first twenty pages and since this is a new book he needn't have made them.

 

Interesting, Andreas- can't say I've ever read "Titans...", but I'm guessing this is the same David Glantz that co-authored "The Battle of Kursk"?
And what year is "Titans..." from? recent?

 

As you can count the few 'fair' (=fairly unbiased)accounts on the Russsian-German war in english language in less than one hand, i'd say Glanz is a fair buy.

Get it, If you don't speak russian or german.

Cheers,

 

Overall it's a pretty solid, quick, overview of the war on the eastern front. In my opinion it is just too thin to go into much detail, and in order to claim the "definite work on the war in Russia" that has been placed on it, would have to be at least twice as long. John Erickson still rules supreme in this area with "The Road to Stalingrad" and "The Road to Berlin", despite getting quite old by now! Glantz does make a few mistakes in it, such as claiming both the Panther and Tiger have 88mm guns, and so on, but such detail isn't really the scope of the book. It presents the action at the operational level with lots of maps, and as such does a good job.

There are some nice tables towards the end, detailing strength ratios at various points during the war, as well as Soviet casualties for operations. These are quite interesting, as the Soviet advantage in manpower at any given time, clearly isn't quite what one would believe from certain accounts, for the most part of the war.