Jonathan M. House (born June 22, 1950) is an American

military historian Military history is the study of armed conflict in the history of humanity, and its impact on the societies, cultures and economies thereof, as well as the resulting changes to local and international relationships. Professional historians ...

and author. He is a professor emeritus of military history at the

United States Army Command and General Staff College The United States Army Command and General Staff College (CGSC or, obsolete, USACGSC) at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, is a graduate school for United States Army and sister service officers, interagency representatives, and international military ...

. House is a leading authority on Soviet military history, with an emphasis on

World War II World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...

and the Soviet influence upon modern operational doctrine. Together with David Glantz, he wrote multiple books on the

Red Army The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, often shortened to the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Republic and, from 1922, the Soviet Union. The army was established in January 1918 by a decree of the Council of People ...

operations on the Eastern Front, most notably ''When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army Stopped Hitler''.

Education and career

A 1971 graduate of Hamilton College, in 1975 House completed his history doctorate and was commissioned out of Army ROTC at the University of Michigan. After numerous courses at the U.S. Army Intelligence Center and School (1978, 1979–80), he completed master's degrees in strategy (Command and General Staff College, 1984) and intelligence (King's College London, 2017). House served as an intelligence analyst for the Joint Chiefs of Staff at

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during both the 1991 and 2003 conflicts with Iraq. He retired as a colonel of military intelligence. House is the author of ''Toward Combined Arms Warfare: a Survey of 20th-century Tactics, Doctrine, and Organization'' (1984) ''A Military History of the Cold War'' (2 vols, 2012 and 2020), ''Controlling Paris: Armed Forces and Counter-Revolution, 1789-1848'' (2014).WorldCat Identities
/ref> and ''Intelligence and the State'' (2022).

Historian of German-Soviet War, 1941–1945

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). In 2017, House was the primary author of a consolidated volume entitled simply ''Stalingrad.'' All books were published by the University Press of Kansas. Their first collaboration, ''When Titans Clashed'', was described upon initial publication in 1995 in an H-Net review as "belong ngin every college library and on the shelves of all World War II historians". 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".Zaloga, Steven (2010)
"Companion to the Red Army 1939-1945"
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