The Society for Military History Distinguished Book Awards
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2018 The rivers ran backward : the
Civil War and the remaking of the American middle border by Christopher
Phillips; Motivation in war : the experience of common soldiers in Old-Regime
Europe by Ilya Berkovich;
Omar Nelson Bradley : America's GI general by Steven
L. Ossad; The Holocaust : an encyclopedia and document collection, edited by
Paul R. Bartrop and Michael Dickerman
2017 Fatal Sunday : George Washington,
the Monmouth Campaign, and the politics of battle by Mark Edward Lender and
Garry Wheeler Stone; The gunpowder age : China, military innovation, and the
rise of the West in world history by Tonio Andrade; The commander : Fawzi al-Qawuqji
and the fight for Arab independence, 1914-1948 by Laila Parsons; The battle of
Crécy : a casebook, edited by Michael Livingston and Kelly DeVries
2016
Braddock's defeat : the Battle of
Monongahela and the road to revolution by David Preston;
The Iran-Iraq war by
Pierre Razoux; Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich : Supreme Commander of the Russian
Army by Paul Robinson; Germany at war : 400 years of military history, edited by
David T. Zabecki
2015
The men who lost
America : British leadership, the American Revolution, and the fate of the
empire by Andrew Jackson O’Shaughnessy; Ring of steel : Germany and
Austria-Hungary in World War I by Alexander Watson; Blucher : scourge of
Napoleon by Michael V. Leggiere
2014 Jackson's sword : the Army Officer
Corps on the American frontier, 1810-1821 and Peacekeepers and conquerors : the
Army Officer Corps on the American frontier, 1821-1846 by Samuel J. Watson;
Global crisis : war,
climate change and catastrophe in the seventeenth century by
Geoffrey Parker; The young Ataturk : from Ottoman soldier to statesman of Turkey
by George W. Gawrych; American Civil War : the definitive encyclopedia and
document collection, edited by Spencer Tucker
2013 The school of hard knocks : combat
leadership in the American Expeditionary Forces by Richard S. Faulkner;
The Wehrmacht
retreats : fighting a lost war, 1943 by Robert M. Citino;
Stalin's general :
the life of Georgy Zhukov by Geoffrey Roberts; Of duty well and faithfully done
: a history of the regular army in the Civil War by Clayton R. Newell and
Charles R. Shrader
2012
Kevlar legions : the transformation of the U.S. Army, 1989-2005 by John
Sloan Brown; The battle for China : essays on the military history of the
Sino-Japanese War of 1937-1945, edited by Mark Peattie, Edward Drea, and Hans
van de Ven; Manstein : Hitler's greatest general by Mungo Melvin;
US Army Order of Battle 1919-1941
by Steven E. Clay
2011 Torchbearers of democracy :
African American soldiers in the World War I era by Chad L. Williams;
The Thirty
Years War : Europe's tragedy by Peter H. Wilson; Triquet's Cross : a study
of military heroism by John MacFarlane; The Oxford encyclopedia of medieval
warfare and military technology, edited by Clifford J. Rogers
2010 A savage conflict : the decisive
role of guerrillas in the American Civil War by Daniel E. Sutherland; Japan's
Imperial Army : its rise and fall, 1853-1945 by Edward J. Drea; Douglas Haig and
the First World War by J.P. Harris; The Encyclopedia of the Spanish-American and
Philippine-American wars : a political, social, and military history, edited by
Spencer C. Tucker
2009 The Cold War U.S. Army : building
deterrence for limited war by Ingo Trauschweizer; Vauban under siege :
engineering efficiency and martial vigor in the War of the Spanish Succession by
Jamel Ostwald; Vietnam's forgotten army : heroism and betrayal in the ARVN by
Andy Wiest;
The Cambridge history of Greek and Roman warfare, edited by Philip Sabin,
Hans van Wees, and Michael Whitby
2008
1812 : war
with America by Jon Latimer; War and genocide in Cuba, 1895-1898 by John
Lawrence Tone; Your death would be mine : Paul and Marie Pireaud in the Great
War by Martha Hannah;
The
Encyclopedia of the Cold War : a political, social and military history,
edited by Spencer C. Tucker
2007 The first way of war : American
war making on the frontier, 1607-1814 by John Grenier; Pyrrhic victory : French
strategy and operations in the Great War by Robert A. Doughty;
Caesar : life
of a colossus by Adrian Goldsworthy;
Encyclopedia
of war & American society, edited by Peter Karsten
2006 The battle of Leyte Gulf : the
last fleet action by H. P. Willmott; Princes, posts, and partisans : the army of
Louis XIV and partisan warfare in the Netherlands (1673-1678) by George
Satterfield; Atlas of the Civil War by Steven E. Woodworth and Kenneth J.
Winkle; Horatio Nelson, the new letters, edited by Colin White
2005 The regulars : the American Army,
1898-1941 by Edward M. Coffman; Blitzkrieg to Desert Storm : the evolution of
operational warfare by Robert M. Citino; United States Army unit and
organizational histories : a bibliography by James T. Controvich
2004 Fredericksburg! Fredericksburg! by
George C. Rable; Fields of fire : the Canadians in Normandy by Terry Copp; A
good idea of hell : letters from a chasseur a pied, edited by Joshua Brown; The
Naval War of 1812 : a documentary history : volume 3 : 1814-1815, edited by
Michael J. Crawford
2003
An army at
dawn : the war in North Africa, 1942-1943 by Rick Atkinson;
The First World War : volume 1 : To arms by Hew
Strachan; By tank into Normandy : a memoir of the campaign in
north-west Europe from D-Day to VE Day by Stuart Hills;
Encyclopedia
of the American Civil War : a political and military history, edited by
David S. Heidler and Jeanne T. Heidler
2002
Allies and
adversaries : the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Grand Alliance, and U.S. strategy
in World War II by Mark Stoler;
At war, at sea
: sailors and naval combat in the twentieth century by Ronald H. Spector; A
youth in the Meuse-Argonne,
A colonel in
the armored divisions : a memoir, 1941-1945, and
In the
Philippines and Okinawa : a memoir, 1945-1948, by William S. Triplet, edited
by Robert H. Ferrell
2001
Inside Hitler's High Command by Geoffrey P. Megargee;
The Philippine War, 1899-1902
by Brian McAllister Linn;
The Oxford
companion to American military history, John Whiteclay Chambers II (Editor
in Chief) (also available
online
for MSUM students, staff, and faculty)
2000
The GI
offensive in Europe : the triumph of American infantry divisions, 1941-1945 by Peter R. Mansoor; Sir John Fisher's
naval
revolution by Nicholas A. Lambert
1999 Kaigun : strategy, tactics, and technology in the Imperial Japanese Navy,
1887-1941 by David C. Evans and Mark R. Peattie;
Tecumseh : a
life by John Sugden
1998
Guardians of
empire : the U.S. Army and the Pacific, 1902-1940 by Brian
McAllister Linn; The king's army : warfare, soldiers, and society
during the wars of religion in France, 1562-1576 by James B. Wood
1997
Courage and
air warfare : the Allied aircrew experience in the Second World War by Mark K. Wells; American
samurai : myth, imagination, and
the conduct of battle in the First Marine Division, 1941-1951 by Craig M.
Cameron
1996
One hundred
years of sea power : the U.S. Navy, 1890-1990 by George W. Baer;
Rich relations
: the American occupation of Britain, 1942-1945 by David Reynolds
1995
Paul Revere's
ride by David Hackett Fischer;
A world at
arms : a global history of World War II by Gerhard L. Weinberg (2d ed. (2005)
here)
1994
A history of
warfare by John Keegan; An American
profession of arms : the army officer corps, 1784-1861 by William B. Skelton
1993 The French Foreign Legion by Douglas Porch;
War Plan
Orange : the U.S. strategy to defeat Japan, 1897-1945 by Edward S. Miller
1992
The age of
battles : the quest for decisive warfare from Breitenfeld to Waterloo by Russell F. Weigley;
Forged in
battle : the Civil War alliance of Black soldiers and white officers by
Joseph T. Glatthaar
1991
The Women's Army Corps, 1945-1978 by Bettie J. Morden; Limits of
empire : the Roman army in the East by Benjamin Isaac
1990
Technology and
war : from 2000 B.C. to the present by Martin Van Creveld;
The War of
1812 : a forgotten conflict by Donald R. Hickey
1989
Battle cry of
freedom : the Civil War era by James M. McPherson;
The military revolution : military innovation and the rise of
the West by Geoffrey Parker
1988
To raise an
army : the draft comes to modern America by John W. Chambers, II
1987
Pershing,
general of the armies by Donald Smythe