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Society of Military History - Distinguished Book Award
Book awards: Society of Military History - Distinguished Book Award
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Works (52)
Titles
Order
Pershing: General of the Armies
by
Donald Smythe
1987
To Raise an Army
by
Chambers
1988
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
by
James M. McPherson
1989
The Military Revolution: Military Innovation and the Rise of the West, 1500-1800
by
Geoffrey Parker
1989
Technology and War: From 2000 B.C. to the Present
by
Martin L. van Creveld
1990
The War of 1812: A FORGOTTEN CONFLICT
by
Donald R. Hickey
1990
The Limits of Empire: The Roman Army in the East
by
Benjamin H. Isaac
1991
The Women's Army Corps 1945=1978
by
Bettie J. Morden
1991
The Age of Battles: The Quest for Decisive Warfare from Breitenfeld to Waterloo
by
Russell F. Weigley
1992
Forged in Battle: The Civil War Alliance of Black Soldiers and White Officers
by
Joseph T. Glatthaar
1992
The French Foreign Legion
by
Douglas Porch
1993
War Plan Orange: The U.S. Strategy to Defeat Japan, 1897-1945
by
Edward S. Miller
1993
An American Profession of Arms: The Army Officer Corps, 1784-1861 (Modern War Studies)
by
William B. Skelton
1994
A History of Warfare
by
John Keegan
1994
Paul Revere's Ride
by
David Hackett Fischer
1995
A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II
by
Gerhard L. Weinberg
1995
One Hundred Years of Sea Power: The U. S. Navy, 1890-1990
by
George Baer
1996
Rich Relations: The American Occupation of Britain 1942-1945
by
David Reynolds
1996
American Samurai: Myth and Imagination in the Conduct of Battle in the First Marine Division 1941-1951
by
Craig M. Cameron
1997
Courage and Air Warfare: The Allied Aircrew Experience in the Second World War (Cass Studies in Air Power)
by
Mark K. Wells
1997
Guardians of Empire: The U.S. Army and the Pacific, 1902-1940
by
Brian McAllister Linn
1998
The King's Army: Warfare, Soldiers and Society during the Wars of Religion in France, 1562-76
by
James B. Wood
1998
Kaigun : Strategy, Tactics, and Technology in the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1887-1941
by
David C. Evans
1999
Tecumseh: A Life
by
John Sugden
1999
The GI Offensive in Europe: The Triumph of American Infantry Divisions, 1941-1945
by
Peter R. Mansoor
2000
Sir John Fisher's Naval Revolution
by
Nicholas A. Lambert
2000
Inside Hitler's High Command
by
Geoffrey P. Megargee
2001
The Oxford Companion to American Military History
by
John Whiteclay Chambers
2001
The Philippine War, 1899-1902 (Modern War Studies)
by
Brian McAllister Linn
2001
Allies and Adversaries: The Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Grand Alliance, and U.S. Strategy in World War II
by
Mark A. Stoler
2002
At War, At Sea
by
Ronald H. Spector
2002
An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943
by
Rick Atkinson
2003
By Tank Into Normandy
by
Stuart Hills
2003
Encyclopedia of the American Civil War: A Political, Social, and Military History
by
James M. McPherson
2003
The First World War. Volume 1, To Arms
by
Hew Strachan
2003
Fields of Fire: The Canadians in Normandy (Joanne Goodman Lectures)
by
Terry Copp
2004
Fredericksburg! Fredericksburg!
by
George C. Rable
2004
A good idea of hell : letters from a chasseur �a pied
2004
The Naval War of 1812, A Documentary History, V. 3: 1814-1815, Chesapeake Bay, Northern Lakes, and Pacific Ocean
by
Michael J. Crawford
2004
Blitzkrieg to Desert Storm
by
Robert M. Citino
2005
The Regulars: The American Army, 1898-1941
by
Edward M. Coffman
2005
United States Army unit and organizational histories : a bibliography
2005
The Battle Of Leyte Gulf: The Last Fleet Action (Twentieth-Century Battles)
by
H. P. Willmott
2006
Nelson: The New Letters
by
Viscount Horatio Nelson Nelson
2006
The Oxford Atlas of the Civil War
by
Steven E. Woodworth
2006
Princes, Posts and Partisans: The Army of Louis XIV and Partisan Warfare in the Netherlands 1673-1678 (History of Warfar
by
George Satterfield
2006
Caesar: Life of a Colossus
by
Adrian Goldsworthy
2007
The First Way of War: American War Making on the Frontier, 1607-1814
by
John Grenier
2007
Pyrrhic Victory
by
Robert A. Doughty
2007
1812: War with America
by
Jon Latimer
2008
War and Genocide in Cuba, 1895-1898 (Envisioning Cuba)
by
John Lawrence Tone
2008
Your Death Will Be Mine
by
Martha Hanna
2008
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by
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by
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Castles of Steel: Britain, Germany, and the Winning of the Great War at Sea
by
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The First World War
by
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The Old Army: A Portrait of the American Army in Peacetime, 1784-1898
by
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The Price of Admiralty: The Evolution of Naval Warfare
by
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Citizen Soldiers: The U. S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany
by
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The Day of Battle
by
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The Civil War, a narrative : Fort Sumter to Perryville
by
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Makers of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age
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Dreadnought
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The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783
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Why the Allies Won
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Supplying War: Logistics from Wallenstein to Patton
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Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877
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Book awards authors (48)
Rick Atkinson
George Baer
Craig M. Cameron
Chambers
John Whiteclay Chambers
Robert M. Citino
Edward M. Coffman
Terry Copp
Michael J. Crawford
Martin L. van Creveld
Robert A. Doughty
David C. Evans
David Hackett Fischer
Joseph T. Glatthaar
Adrian Goldsworthy
John Grenier
Martha Hanna
Donald R. Hickey
Stuart Hills
Benjamin H. Isaac
John Keegan
Nicholas A. Lambert
Jon Latimer
Brian McAllister Linn
Peter R. Mansoor
James M. McPherson
Geoffrey P. Megargee
Edward S. Miller
Bettie J. Morden
Geoffrey Parker
Douglas Porch
George C. Rable
David Reynolds
George Satterfield
William B. Skelton
Donald Smythe
Ronald H. Spector
Mark A. Stoler
Hew Strachan
John Sugden
John Lawrence Tone
Gerhard L. Weinberg
Mark K. Wells
H. P. Willmott
James B. Wood
Steven E. Woodworth
Horatio Nelson
Russell Frank Weigley
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