Glantz is known as a military historian of the Soviet role in World War II. He has argued that World War II Soviet military history has been prejudiced in the West, which relies too much on German oral and printed sources without being balanced by a similar examination of Soviet source material. He has been criticized for some of his stylistic choices, such as inventing specific thoughts and feelings of historical figures without reference to documented sources in a review about book on his Operation Mars.
1984 Art of War symposium, From the Don to the Dnepr: Soviet Offensive Operations – December 1942 – August 1943, A transcript of Proceedings, Center for Land Warfare, US Army War College, 26–30 March 1984
1985 Art of War symposium, From the Dnepr to the Vistula: Soviet Offensive Operations – November 1943 – August 1944, A transcript of Proceedings, Center for Land Warfare, US Army War College, 29–3 May 1985
1986 Art of War symposium, From the Vistula to the Oder: Soviet Offensive Operations – October 1944 – March 1945, A transcript of Proceedings, Center for Land Warfare, US Army War College, 19–23 May 1986
Soviet Documents on the Use of War Experience: The Winter Campaign, 1941–1942, David M. Glantz, Harold S. Orenstein
When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army Stopped Hitler
The Initial Period of War on the Eastern Front, 22 June – August 1941: Proceedings of the Fourth Art of War Symposium, Garmisch, October 1987, edited by Colonel David M. Glantz, Routledge
Captured Soviet Generals: The Fate of Soviet Generals Captured by the Germans, 1941–1945, Aleksander A. Maslov, edited and translated by David M. Glantz and Harold S. Orenstein, Routledge; first edition,
Belorussia 1944: The Soviet General Staff Study, Soviet Union Raboche-Krestianskaia Krasnaia Armiia Generalnyi Shtab, Glantz, David M., Orenstein, Harold S., Frank Cass & Co, 2001
The Battle for Leningrad, 1941–1944
Before Stalingrad: Barbarossa, Hitler's Invasion of Russia 1941, Tempus, 2003
Battle for the Ukraine: The Korsun'-Shevchenkovskii Operation, Frank Cass Publishers, 2003
The Soviet Strategic Offensive in Manchuria, 1945: August Storm
Atlas and Operational Summary: The Border Battles, 22 June–1 July 1941; daily situation maps prepared by Michael Avanzini, Publisher: David Glantz, 2003
Hitler and His Generals: Military Conferences 1942–1945: The First Complete Stenographic Record of the Military Situation Conferences, from Stalingrad to Berlin, Helmut Heiber and David M. Glantz editors, Enigma Books;
Colossus Reborn: The Red Army at War, 1941–1943
Companion to Colossus Reborn: Key Documents and Statistics
Red Storm Over the Balkans: The Failed Soviet Invasion of Romania, Spring 1944
Stalingrad: How the Red Army Survived the German Onslaught, Casemate Publishers and Book Distributors, Jones, Michael K., Glantz, David M. 2007
To the Gates of Stalingrad: Soviet-German Combat Operations, April–August 1942 with Jonathan M. House, University Press of Kansas, 2009
Armageddon in Stalingrad: September–November 1942 with Jonathan M. House, University Press of Kansas, 2009
Endgame at Stalingrad: November 1942 with Jonathan M. House, University Press of Kansas, 2014
Endgame at Stalingrad: November 1942 with Jonathan M. House, University Press of Kansas, 2014
After Stalingrad: The Red Army's Winter Offensive 1942–1943
Barbarossa Derailed: The Battle for Smolensk, 10 July–10 September 1941 Volume 1, Helion & Company, 2010;
Barbarossa Derailed: The Battle for Smolensk, 10 July–10 September 1941 Volume 2, Helion & Company, 2012;
Barbarossa Derailed: The Battle for Smolensk, 10 July–10 September 1941 Volume 3, Helion & Company, 2014;
with Mary E. Glantz. The Battle for Belorussia: The Red Army's Forgotten Campaign of October 1943 – April 1944, University Press of Kansas, 2016;
Operation Don's Main Attack: The Soviet Southern Front's Advance on Rostov, January-February 1943 University Press of Kansas 2018
Operation Don's Left Wing: The Trans-Caucasus Front's Pursuit of the First Panzer Army, November 1942-February 1943 University Press of Kansas 2019
