The Duke of Westminster's Medal for Military Literature was awarded by the

Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies The Royal United Services Institute (RUSI, Rusi), registered as Royal United Service Institute for Defence and Security Studies and formerly the Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies, is a British defence and security think tank. ...

, (the RUSI), Whitehall, London. Awarded annually from 1997 to 2016, the Medal was given to honour a living author who has published a notable original contribution to the fields of defences studies and international security affairs. This award has been superseded by the Duke of Wellington Medal for Military History as of 2018. Retrieved July 28, 2022.

The Duke of Westminster's Medallists

* 1997: Andrew Gordon: ''The Rules of the Game: Jutland and the British Naval Command'' * 1998: Hew Strachan: ''The Politics of the British Army'' * 1999:

John Keegan Sir John Desmond Patrick Keegan (15 May 1934 – 2 August 2012) was an English military historian, lecturer, author and journalist. He wrote many published works on the nature of combat between prehistory and the 21st century, covering land, ...

: ''The First World War'' * 2000: Michael Hickey: ''The Korean War: The West confronts Communism'' * 2001:

Norman Friedman Norman Friedman (born 1946) is an American internationally known author and analyst, strategist, and historian. He has written over 30 books and numerous articles on naval and other military matters, has worked for the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps ...

: ''The Fifty-Year War: Conflict and Strategy in the Cold War'' * 2002: Sir Percy Cradock: ''Know Your Enemy: How the Joint Intelligence Committee Saw the World'' * 2003:

Marrack Goulding Sir Marrack Goulding KCMG (2 September 19369 July 2010) was a British diplomat who served more than eleven years as Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations. Early life Born in Plymouth in Devon, England, to Sir Irvine Goulding, a Hig ...

: ''Peacemonger'' * 2004: Gerard DeGroot: ''The Bomb, a Life'' * 2005:

Nicholas Rodger Nicholas Andrew Martin Rodger Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London, FSA FRHistS British Academy, FBA (born 12 November 1949) is a historian of the Royal Navy and senior research fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. Life and academia Th ...

: ''The Command of the Ocean: A Naval History of Britain 1649–1815'' * 2006: R. J. B. Knight: ''The Pursuit of Victory: The Life and Achievement of Horatio Nelson'' * 2007: Aleksandr Fursenko and

Timothy Naftali Timothy Naftali is a Canadian-American historian who is clinical associate professor of public service at New York University. He has written four books, two of them co-authored with Alexander Fursenko on the Cuban Missile Crisis and Nikita Khrus ...

: ''Khrushchev's Cold War: The Inside Story of an American Adversary'' * 2008:

Chris Bellamy Chris is a short form of various names including Christopher, Christian, Christina, Christine, and Christos. Chris is also used as a name in its own right, however it is not as common. People with the given name *Chris Abani (born 1966), Nige ...

: ''Absolute War: Soviet Russia in the Second World War'' * 2009: Sir Lawrence Freedman: ''A Choice of Enemies: America Confronts the Middle East'' * 2010:

Antony Beevor Sir Antony James Beevor, (born 14 December 1946) is a British military historian. He has published several popular historical works on the Second World War and the Spanish Civil War. Early life Born in Kensington, Beevor was educated at two ...

: ''D-Day: The Battle for Normandy'' * 2011: Sir Rodric Braithwaite: ''Afgantsy: The Russians in Afghanistan, 1979–89'' * 2012:

Sir Max Hastings Sir Max Hugh Macdonald Hastings (; born 28 December 1945) is a British journalist and military historian, who has worked as a foreign correspondent for the BBC, editor-in-chief of ''The Daily Telegraph'', and editor of the ''Evening Standard'' ...

: ''All Hell Let Loose: The World at War 1939–1945'' * 2013:

Anne Applebaum Anne Elizabeth Applebaum (born July 25, 1964) is an American journalist and historian. She has written extensively about the history of Communism and the development of civil society in Central and Eastern Europe. She has worked at ''The Econo ...

: ''Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944–56'' * 2014:

Rana Mitter Shantashil Rajyeswar Mitter (born 1969), known as Rana Mitter, is a British historian and political scientist of Indian origin who specialises in the history of republican China. He is Professor of the History and Politics of Modern China at t ...

''China’s War with Japan 1937-1945: The Struggle for Survival'' * 2015: Lord

Peter Hennessy Peter John Hennessy, Baron Hennessy of Nympsfield, (born 28 March 1947) is an English historian and academic specialising in the history of government. Since 1992, he has been Attlee Professor of Contemporary British History at Queen Mary Unive ...

and

James Jinks James is a common English language surname and given name: *James (name), the typically masculine first name James * James (surname), various people with the last name James James or James City may also refer to: People * King James (disambiguati ...

: ''The Silent Deep: The Royal Navy Submarine Service since 1945''

References

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External links

RUSI website: Duke of Westminster's Medal for Military Literature
English literary awards Awards established in 1997 Military literary awards