The Paul Birdsall Prize in European Military and Strategic History

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2018     Soldiers of empire : Indian and British armies in World War II by Tarak Barkawi
2016     The Great War and the origins of humanitarianism, 1918-1924 by Bruno Cabanes
2014     Arming Mother Nature : the birth of catastrophic environmentalism by Jacob Darwin Hamblin
2012     Burned Bridge : how East and West Germans made the Iron Curtain by Edith Replogle Sheffer
2010     Nexus : strategic communications and American security in World War I by Jonathan Reed Winkler
2008     Cold war at 30,000 feet : the Anglo-American fight for aviation supremacy by Jeffrey A. Engel
2006     Assuming the burden : Europe and the American commitment to war in Vietnam by Mark Atwood Lawrence
2004     Blitzkrieg to Desert Storm : the evolution of operational warfare by Robert M. Citino
2002     A diplomatic revolution : Algeria's fight for independence and the origins of the post-Cold War era by Matthew Connelly
2000     A constructed peace : the making of the European settlement, 1945–1963 by Marc Trachtenberg
1998     British naval policy in the Gladstone-Disraeli era, 1866-1880 by John F. Beeler
1996     The arming of Europe and the making of the First World War by David G. Hermann
1994     Between mutiny and obedience : the case of the French Fifth Infantry Division during World War I by Leonard V. Smith
1992     Tannenberg : clash of empires by Dennis E. Showalter
1990     Unauthorized action : Mountbatten and the Dieppe Raid by Brian Loring Villa
1988     No award
1986     The seeds of disaster : the development of the French Army doctrine, 1919–1939 by Col. Robert A. Doughty