The Society for Military History is a United States–based international organization of scholars who research, write, and teach
military history
Military history is the study of armed conflict in the history of humanity, and its impact on the societies, cultures and economies thereof, as well as the resulting changes to local and international relationships.
Professional historians norma ...
of all time periods and places. It includes
naval history
Naval warfare is combat in and on the sea, the ocean, or any other battlespace involving a major body of water such as a large lake or wide river. Mankind has fought battles on the sea for more than 3,000 years. Even in the interior of large lan ...
,
air power history, and studies of technology, ideas, and homefronts. It publishes the quarterly refereed ''
The Journal of Military History
''The Journal of Military History'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering the military history of all times and places. It is the official journal of the Society for Military History. The journal was established in 1937 and the ed ...
''.
Activities
The society was established in 1933 as the American Military History Foundation, renamed in 1939 to the American Military Institute, and renamed again in 1990 to the Society for Military History. It has over 2,300 members, including many prominent scholars, soldiers, and citizens interested in military history. Membership is open to anyone and includes a subscription to the journal.
The Society also sponsors sessions on military topics at the annual
Northern Great Plains History Conference The Northern Great Plains History Conference is an annual conference of history professors, graduate students, historical society experts, and other scholars interested in the history of the Great Plains states of the American Midwest. The Conferenc ...
.
Annual meetings
The Society typically holds a meeting in the first half of every year.
Recent meetings have been held in the following locations:
Current and past presidents
*Gregory J. W. Urwin (President as of 2004)
*
Dennis Showalter
Dennis Edwin Showalter (February 12, 1942 – December 30, 2019) was a professor emeritus of history at Colorado College. Showalter specialized in German military history. He was president of the American Society for Military History from 1997 to ...
*
Carol Reardon
Carol Reardon is an American military historian with a concentration in Civil War and Vietnam eras. She was a George Winfree Professor of American History at Pennsylvania State University. She now currently teaches at Gettysburg College.
Academi ...
*
Theodore Ropp
Theodore Ropp (1911–2000) was an American historian who served as a professor at Duke University.
Academic career
Theodore Ropp's first teaching position was as an instructor in history at Harvard University in 1937–38. In 1938, Duke Univers ...
*
Brian McAllister Linn
Brian McAllister Linn is an American military historian, who specializes in the 20th century. He serves on the faculty at Texas A&M University. He was born in the territory of Hawaii and graduated from Ohio State University.
Education
*Ph.D., The ...
*
Jeffrey Grey
Jeffrey Guy Grey (19 March 1959 – 26 July 2016) was an Australian military historian. He wrote two volumes of '' The Official History of Australia's Involvement in Southeast Asian Conflicts 1948–1975'', and several other high-profile works ...
*
Roy K. Flint
Roy K. Flint (1928–2016) was a brigadier general in the United States Army, dean of the academic board at the United States Military Academy, and a president of the Society for Military History.
Career
After graduating from the University of M ...
Prizes
Samuel Eliot Morison Prize
The Samuel Eliot Morison Prize recognizes not any one specific achievement, but a body of contributions in the field of military history, stretching over time and showing a range of scholarly work contributing significantly to the field. Recent winners include:
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Robert M. Citino
Robert M. Citino (born June 19, 1958) is an American military historian and the Samuel Zemurray Stone Senior Historian at the National WWII Museum. He is a leading authority on modern German military history, with an emphasis upon World War I ...
, National WWII Museum, 2021
*
Jon Tetsuro Sumida
Jon is a shortened form of the common given name Jonathan, derived from "YHWH has given", and an alternate spelling of John, derived from "YHWH has pardoned".Brian Holden-Reid
Brian Holden-Reid (born 1952) is a British military historian.
Career
Holden-Reid studied at University of Hull, University of Sussex and University of London. He taught at Polytechnic of North London and City University London. In 1982 he jo ...
, King's College London, 2019
*
Hew Strachan
Sir Hew Francis Anthony Strachan ( ), (born 1 September 1949) is a British military historian, well known for his leadership in scholarly studies of the British Army and the history of the First World War. He is currently professor of internati ...
, University of St Andrews, 2018
*
John A. Lynn
John Albert Lynn (born March 18, 1943) is a military historian who has written on a wide variety of topics in his field, with an emphasis on early modern Europe.
Early life and education
Born in Glenview, Illinois, in 1943, he received his Bac ...
II, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2017
* Conrad C. Crane,
Army Heritage and Education Center
The United States Army Heritage and Education Center (USAHEC), at Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania, is the U.S. Army's primary historical research facility. Formed in 1999 and reorganized in 2013, the center consists of the Military History Institu ...
,
United States Army War College
The United States Army War College (USAWC) is a U.S. Army educational institution in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, on the 500-acre (2 km2) campus of the historic Carlisle Barracks. It provides graduate-level instruction to senior military offic ...
, 2016
*
Joseph T. Glatthaar, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2015
*
Rick Atkinson
Lawrence Rush "Rick" Atkinson IV (born November 15, 1952) is an American author, most recently of ''The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775–1777'', the first volume in the Revolution Trilogy. He has won Pulit ...
, Washington, DC, 2014
*
Ira D. Gruber Ira D. Gruber (born January 6, 1934) is an American author, bibliographer, and military historian of the American Revolution.
Personal life
Ira D. Gruber was born January 6, 1934, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and grew up in Pottstown, Pennsylvan ...
, Rice University, 2013
*
Ronald H. Spector
Ronald Harvey Spector (born January 17, 1943) is a military historian, who contributes to scholarly journals and also teaches history. He is currently a professor at the George Washington University.
Military career
He enlisted in the United S ...
, The George Washington University, 2012
*
Gerhard Weinberg
Gerhard Ludwig Weinberg (born 1 January 1928) is a German-born American diplomatic and military historian noted for his studies in the history of Nazi Germany and World War II. Weinberg is the William Rand Kenan, Jr. Professor Emeritus of Histo ...
, University of North Carolina, 2011
*
Peter Maslowski, 2010
*
Richard Kohn
Richard Kohn (27 February 1888 – 16 June 1963) was an Austrian football player and later coach of FC Bayern Munich, FC Barcelona and Feyenoord Rotterdam. He was Jewish, born in Vienna. His nickname was ''Dombi'' or ''Little Dombi'', meani ...
, 2009
*
Jeremy Black, 2008
*
James M. McPherson
James Munro McPherson (born October 11, 1936) is an American Civil War historian, and is the George Henry Davis '86 Professor Emeritus of United States History at Princeton University. He received the 1989 Pulitzer Prize for '' Battle Cry of F ...
, 2007
*
Robert A. Doughty
Robert Allan Doughty (born November 4, 1943) is an American military historian and retired United States Army officer.
Early life
Doughty was born in Tullos, Louisiana, on November 4, 1943, to parents John and Georgia Doughty.
Career
He a ...
, 2006
*
Dennis Showalter
Dennis Edwin Showalter (February 12, 1942 – December 30, 2019) was a professor emeritus of history at Colorado College. Showalter specialized in German military history. He was president of the American Society for Military History from 1997 to ...
, 2005
*
Allan R. Millett
Allan R. Millett (born October 22, 1937) is a historian and a retired colonel in U.S. Marine Corps Reserve. He is known for his works on the Korean War, but he has written on other military topics.
Early life
Millett is the son of John D. Mille ...
, 2004
*
Edward J. Drea
Edward John Drea (born 24 February 1944) is an American military historian. He deals especially with the Imperial Japanese Army and the Pacific War.
Early life and education
Edward John Drea was born in Buffalo, New York, on 24 February 1944. ...
, 2003
*
John Shy
John Willard Shy (March 23, 1931 – April 8, 2022) was a military historian and professor emeritus at the University of Michigan. Shy was part of a group of military historians who examined the interplay of the military, politics, and society in ...
, 2002
*
Richard Overy
Richard James Overy (born 23 December 1947) is a British historian who has published on the history of World War II and Nazi Germany. In 2007, as ''The Times'' editor of ''Complete History of the World'', he chose the 50 key dates of world his ...
, 2001
*
David M. Glantz, 2000
*
Geoffrey N. Parker
Noel Geoffrey Parker (born 25 December 1943) is an English historian specialising in the history of Western Europe, Spain, and warfare during the early modern era. His best known book is ''The Military Revolution: Military Innovation and the Ri ...
, 1999
*
Stephen E. Ambrose, 1998
*
Robert M. Utley
Robert Marshall Utley (October 31, 1929 – June 7, 2022) was an American author and historian who wrote sixteen books on the history of the American West. He was a chief historian for the National Park Service.
Much of his writing deals with t ...
, 1997
*
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, ...
, 1996
*
Martin Blumenson
Martin Blumenson (November 8, 1918 – April 15, 2005) was an American military historian who served as a historical officer with the Third and Seventh Armies in World War II and later became a prolific author. His works included a biography of ...
, 1995
*
Harold C. Deutsch
Harold Charles Deutsch (June 7, 1904 – May 15, 1995) was an American military historian who focused on World War II. During the Second World War, he served as head of research for the Office of Strategic Services.
Life
Deutsch was born in ...
, 1994
*
Peter Paret
Peter Paret (April 13, 1924 – September 11, 2020) was a German-born American cultural and intellectual historian, whose two principal areas of research were war and the interaction of art and politics from 18th to 20th century Europe. , 1993
*
Michael Howard
Michael Howard, Baron Howard of Lympne (born Michael Hecht; 7 July 1941) is a British politician who served as Leader of the Conservative Party and Leader of the Opposition from November 2003 to December 2005. He previously held cabinet posi ...
, 1992
*
I. B. Holley, Jr., and
Theodore Ropp
Theodore Ropp (1911–2000) was an American historian who served as a professor at Duke University.
Academic career
Theodore Ropp's first teaching position was as an instructor in history at Harvard University in 1937–38. In 1938, Duke Univers ...
, 1991
*
Edward M. Coffman
Edward M. Coffman (January 27, 1929 – September 16, 2020) was a military historian and University of Wisconsin-Madison professor emeritus.
Early life
He was born in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, and earned his BA, MA, and PhD at the University of Kent ...
, 1990
*
Russell F. Weigley, 1989
* No Award, 1988
*
Forrest C. Pogue, 1987
*
Alvin D. Coox
Alvin David Coox, (pronounced "cooks"; March 8, 1924, Rochester, New York – November 4, 1999, San Diego, California) was an American military historian and author known for his award-winning book, ''Nomonhan: Japan Against Russia''.
Coox studied ...
, 1986
*
Robin Higham
Robin David Stewart Higham (June 20, 1925 – August 27, 2015) was a British-American historian, specializing in aerospace and military history, who also served as a pilot with the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War II.
Early life and fam ...
, 1985
Distinguished Book Awards
The Society's Distinguished Book Awards recognize the best books written in English on military history, broadly conceived.
2022
*
Thomas A. Guglielmo, ''Divisions: A New History of Racism and Resistance in America's World War II Military'', Oxford University Press
* Wendy Goldman and Donald Filtzer, ''Fortress Dark and Stern: The Soviet Home Front during World War II'', Oxford University Press
* Ian Ona Johnson, ''Faustian Bargain: The Soviet-German Partnership and the Origins of the Second World War'', Oxford University Press
*
Michael S. Nieberg, ''When France Fell: The Vichy Crisis and the Fate of the Anglo-American Alliance'', Harvard University Press
*
Ruth Scurr
Ruth Scurr, Lady Stothard FRSL is a British writer, historian and literary critic. She is a Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.
She was educated at St Bernard's Convent, Slough; Oxford University, Cambridge University and the Eco ...
, ''Napoleon, A Life Told in Gardens and Shadows'', Penguin Random House
*
Karen Hagemann
Karen Hagemann (born December 17, 1955) is a German-American historian. She holds the James G. Kenan Distinguished Professor chair at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research focuses on Modern German, European and Transatlanti ...
, Stefan Dudink and
Sonya O. Rose
Sonya Orleans Rose (1935 – October 15, 2020) was an American historian and sociologist whose work focused on the cultural history of the United Kingdom and the British Empire in the 19th and 20th centuries. She was particularly known for her con ...
, editors, ''Oxford Handbook of Gender, War and the Western World Since 1600'', Oxford University Press.
2021
* Donald F. Johnson, ''Occupied America: British Military Rule and the Experience of Revolution,''University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021.
*
Alexander Mikaberidze
Alexander Mikaberidze ( ka, ალექსანდრე მიქაბერიძე; born 27 January 1978) is a Georgian lawyer, author and historian who specializes in Napoleonic studies. He is a full professor of history and social scien ...
, ''The Napoleonic Wars: A Global History,'' Oxford University Press, 2020.
* Daniel Whittingham, ''Charles E. Callwell and the British Way in Warfare'', Cambridge University Press, 2019.
* Aaron Sheehan-Dean, ed., ''The Cambridge History of the American Civil War'', Cambridge University Press, 2019.
* Meighen McCrae, ''Coalition Strategy and the End of the First World War'', Cambridge University Press, 2019.
*
Alexander Watson, ''The Fortress: The Siege of Przemysl and the Making of Europe’s Bloodlands'', Basic Books, 2020
2020
* Monica Kim,
NYU
New York University (NYU) is a private university, private research university in New York City. Chartered in 1831 by the New York State Legislature, NYU was founded by a group of New Yorkers led by then-United States Secretary of the Treasu ...
, ''The Interrogation Rooms of the Korean War: The Untold History,'' Princeton University Press, 2019.
* Geoffrey Robinson,
UCLA
The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California. UCLA's academic roots were established in 1881 as a teachers college then known as the southern branch of the California St ...
, ''The Killing Season: A History of the Indonesian Massacres, 1965-66,'' Princeton University Press, 2018.
* Stephen Brumwell, ''Turncoat: Benedict Arnold and the Crisis of American Liberty'', Yale University Press, 2018.
*
Kelly DeVries
Kelly Robert DeVries (born December 23, 1956) is an American historian specializing in the warfare of the Middle Ages. He is often featured as an expert commentator on television documentaries. He is professor of history at Loyola University Mary ...
, Loyola University, and Michael Livingston, The Citadel, eds., ''Medieval Warfare: A Reader'', University of Toronto Press, 2019.
* Thomas Dodman,
Columbia University
Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...
, ''What Nostalgia Was: War, Empire, and the Time of a Deadly Emotion'', University of Chicago Press, 2019.
2019
*
A. Wilson Greene, ''A Campaign of Giants: The Battle for Petersburg'' Volume 1: From the Crossing of the James to the Crater (Civil War America), University of North Carolina Press, 2018
*Peter Guardino, ''The Dead March: A History of the Mexican-American War'', Harvard University Press, 2018.
*Gonzalo M. Quintero Saravia, ''Bernardo de Gálvez: Spanish Hero of the American Revolution'', University of North Carolina Press, 2018.
*Richard P. Tucker, Tait Keller,
J. R. McNeill, and Martin Schmid, editors, ''Environmental Histories of the First World War'', Cambridge University Press, 2018.
2018
*Christopher Phillips, ''The Rivers Ran Backward: The Civil War and the Remaking of the American Middle Border''
*Ilya Berkovich, ''Motivation in War: The Experience of Common Soldiers in Old-Regime Europe''
*Steven L. Ossad, ''Omar Nelson Bradley: America’s GI General''
*Paul R. Bartrop and Michael Dickerman, ''The Holocaust: An Encyclopedia and Document Collection'', (4 vols.)
2017
*Mark Edward Lender and Garry Wheeler Stone, ''Fatal Sunday: George Washington, the
Monmouth Campaign, and the Politics of Battle''
*
Tonio Andrade
Tonio Adam Andrade (born 1968) is an historian of East Asian history and the history of East Asian trading networks.
Bibliography
* ''Commerce, Culture, and Conflict: Taiwan Under European Rule, 1624–1662''. Yale University Press, 2000.
* ''H ...
, ''The Gunpowder Age: China, Military Innovation, and the Rise of the West in World History''
*Laila Parsons, ''The Commander:
Fawzi al-Qawuqji
Fawzi al-Qawuqji ( ar, فوزي القاوقجي; 19 January 1890 – 5 June 1977) was a leading Arab nationalist military figure in the interwar period.The Arabs and the Holocaust: The Arab-Israeli War of Narratives, by Gilbert Achcar, (NY: Hen ...
and the Fight for Arab Independence, 1914-1948''
*
Michael Livingston
Michael Livingston is a historian, a professor of medieval literature, and a historical fantasy novelist. His 2015 debut novel, '' The Shards of Heaven'', was followed by two sequels.
Early life, education and career
Originally from Colorado, ...
and
Kelly DeVries
Kelly Robert DeVries (born December 23, 1956) is an American historian specializing in the warfare of the Middle Ages. He is often featured as an expert commentator on television documentaries. He is professor of history at Loyola University Mary ...
, editors. ''
The Battle of Crécy: A Casebook''
2016
*
David L. Preston
David L. Preston is an American historian, writer, and professor. He is the author of two books on conflict between English colonists in North America and their French and Native American neighbors, which have won multiple awards. He currently s ...
, ''
Braddock's Defeat: The Battle of the Monongahela and the Road to Revolution''
*
Pierre Razoux, ''The Iran-Iraq War''
*Paul Robinson, ''Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich: Supreme Commander of the Russian Army''
*
David T. Zabecki, editor. ''Germany at War: 400 Years of Military History''
2015
*
Andrew Jackson O'Shaughnessy
Andrew Jackson O'Shaughnessy FRHS (born 1959) is an academic historian, Vice President of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation at Monticello in Virginia, the Saunders Director of the Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies at Mont ...
, ''The Men Who Lost America: British Leadership, the American Revolution, and the Fate of the Empire''
*
Alexander Watson, ''
Ring of Steel: Germany and Austria-Hungary at War, 1914-1918''
*
Michael V. Leggiere, ''Blucher: Scourge of Napoleon''
2014
* Samuel J. Watson, ''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''
*
Geoffrey Parker, ''War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century''
* George W. Gawrych, ''The Young Ataturk: From Ottoman Soldier to Statesman of Turkey''
*
Spencer C. Tucker
Spencer C. Tucker is a Fulbright scholar, retired university professor, and author of works on military history. He taught history at Texas Christian University for 30 years and held the John Biggs Chair of Military History at the Virginia Milit ...
, editor, ''American Civil War: The Definitive Encyclopedia and Document Collection''
2013
* Richard S. Faulkner, ''School of Hard Knocks: Combat Leadership in the American Expeditionary Forces''
*
Robert M. Citino
Robert M. Citino (born June 19, 1958) is an American military historian and the Samuel Zemurray Stone Senior Historian at the National WWII Museum. He is a leading authority on modern German military history, with an emphasis upon World War I ...
, ''The Wehrmacht Retreats: Fighting a Lost War, 1943''
*
Geoffrey Roberts
Geoffrey Roberts (born 1952) is a British historian of World War II working at University College Cork. He specializes in Soviet diplomatic and military history of World War II. He was professor of modern history at University College Cork (UCC ...
, ''Stalin’s General: The Life of Georgy Zhukov''
* Clayton R. Newell and Charles R. Shrader, ''Of Duty Well and Faithfully Done: A History of the Regular Army in the Civil War''
2012
* John Sloan Brown, ''Kevlar Legions: The Transformation of the U.S. Army, 1989-2005''
*
Mark Peattie
Mark R. Peattie (May 3, 1930 in Nice, France – January 22, 2014 in San Rafael, California) was an American academic and Japanologist. Peattie was a specialist in modern Japanese military, naval, and imperial history.Hoover Institution, Stanford ...
, Edward Drea, and
Hans van de Ven (eds.), ''The Battle for China: Essays on the Military History of the Sino-Japanese War of 1937-1945''
*
Mungo Melvin
Major-General Robert Adam Mungo Simpson Melvin (born 1955) CB OBE is a retired British Army officer, and a noted military historian. He is best known for his biography of German field marshal Erich von Manstein. He is an editorial board member of ...
, ''Manstein: Hitler's Greatest General''
* Steven E. Clay, ''US Army Order of Battle 1919-1941'' (4 vols.)
2011
* Chad L. Williams, ''Torchbearers of Democracy: African American Soldiers in the World War I Era''
*
Peter H. Wilson, ''The Thirty Years War: Europe's Tragedy''
* John MacFarlane, ''Triquet’s Cross: A Study of Military Heroism''
*
Clifford J. Rogers
Clifford J. Rogers is a professor of history at the United States Military Academy at West Point. He has also been a Leverhulme Visiting Professor at Swansea University, an Olin Fellow in Military and Strategic History at Yale, and a Fulbright Fe ...
, ed. ''The Oxford Encyclopedia of Medieval Warfare and Military Technology''
2010
* Daniel E. Sutherland, ''A Savage Conflict: The Decisive Role of Guerrillas in the American Civil War''
* Edward J. Drea, ''Japan’s Imperial Army: Its Rise and Fall, 1853-1945''
* J.P. Harris, ''Douglas Haig and the First World War''
*
Spencer C. Tucker
Spencer C. Tucker is a Fulbright scholar, retired university professor, and author of works on military history. He taught history at Texas Christian University for 30 years and held the John Biggs Chair of Military History at the Virginia Milit ...
, ed. ''The Encyclopedia of the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars''
2009
* Ingo Trauschweizer, ''The Cold War U.S. Army: Building Deterrence for Limited War.''
* Jamel Ostwald, ''Vauban Under Siege: Engineering Efficiency and Martial Vigor in the War of the Spanish Succession.''
* Andy Wiest, ''Vietnam's Forgotten Army: Heroism and Betrayal in the ARVN.''
* Philip Sabin, Hans van Wees, and
Michael Whitby
L. Michael Whitby is a British ancient historian of Late Antiquity. He specialises in late Roman history, early Byzantine history and historiography. He is currently pro-vice-chancellor and head of the College of Arts and Law at the University ...
, eds. ''The Cambridge History of Greek and Roman Warfare.''
2008
*
Jon Latimer
Jonathan David Latimer (1964 – 4 January 2009) was an historian and writer based in Wales. His books include ''Operation Compass 1940'' (Osprey, 2000), ''Tobruk 1941'' (Osprey, 2001), ''Deception in War'' (John Murray, 2001), ''Alamein'' (J ...
, ''1812: War with America''
*John Lawrence Tone, ''War and Genocide in Cuba, 1895-1898''
* Martha Hannah, ''Your Death Would Be Mine: Paul and Marie Pireaud in the Great War.''
* Spencer C. Tucker, ed. ''The Encyclopedia of the Cold War: A Political, Social and Military History''
2007
* John Grenier, ''The First Way of War: American War Making on the Frontier, 1607-1814.''
* Robert A. Doughty, ''Pyrrhic Victory: French Strategy and Operations in the Great War. ''
* Adrian Goldsworthy, ''Caesar: Life of a Colossus. ''
* Peter Karsten, ed. ''Encyclopedia of War and American Society.'' 3 vols.
2006
* H. P. Willmott, ''The Battle of Leyte Gulf: The Last Fleet Action ''
* George Satterfield, ''Princes, Posts and Partisans: The Army of Louis XIV and Partisan Warfare in the Netherlands (1673-1678)''
* Steven E. Woodworth and Kenneth J. Winkle, ''Atlas of the Civil War ''
* Colin White, ed., ''Horatio Nelson, The New Letters''
2005
*
Edward M. Coffman
Edward M. Coffman (January 27, 1929 – September 16, 2020) was a military historian and University of Wisconsin-Madison professor emeritus.
Early life
He was born in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, and earned his BA, MA, and PhD at the University of Kent ...
, ''The Regulars: The American Army, 1898-1941 ''
*
Robert M. Citino
Robert M. Citino (born June 19, 1958) is an American military historian and the Samuel Zemurray Stone Senior Historian at the National WWII Museum. He is a leading authority on modern German military history, with an emphasis upon World War I ...
, ''Blitzkrieg to Desert Storm: The Evolution of Operational Warfare ''
* James T. Controvich, ''United States Army Unit and Organizational Histories: A Bibliography''
2004
*
George C. Rable
George C. Rable is an American historian and author. He is Professor Emeritus at the University of Alabama. He received the Lincoln Prize in 2003 for his 2002 book '' Fredericksburg! Fredericksburg!''
Education
He received a bachelor of arts degr ...
, ''Fredericksburg! Fredericksburg! ''
* Terry Copp, ''Fields of Fire: The Canadians in Normandy ''
* Joshua Brown, ed., ''A Good Idea of Hell: Letters from a Chasseur a Pied ''
* Michael J. Crawford, ed., ''The Naval War of 1812: A Documentary History: Volume III 1814-1815''
2003
*
Rick Atkinson
Lawrence Rush "Rick" Atkinson IV (born November 15, 1952) is an American author, most recently of ''The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775–1777'', the first volume in the Revolution Trilogy. He has won Pulit ...
, ''
An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943''
*
Hew Strachan
Sir Hew Francis Anthony Strachan ( ), (born 1 September 1949) is a British military historian, well known for his leadership in scholarly studies of the British Army and the history of the First World War. He is currently professor of internati ...
, ''The First World War. Volume I: To Arms ''
* Stuart Hills, ''By Tank Into Normandy: A Memoir of the Campaign in North-West Europe From D-Day to VE Day ''
* David S. Heidler and Jeanne T. Heidler, eds., ''Encyclopedia of the American Civil War: A Political and Military History'' (3 vol)
2002
* Mark Stoler, ''Allies and Adversaries: The Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Grand Alliances, and U.S. Strategy in World War II ''
*
Ronald H. Spector
Ronald Harvey Spector (born January 17, 1943) is a military historian, who contributes to scholarly journals and also teaches history. He is currently a professor at the George Washington University.
Military career
He enlisted in the United S ...
, ''At War At Sea: Sailors and Naval Combat in the Twentieth Century ''
*
Robert H. Ferrell
Robert Hugh Ferrell (May 8, 1921 – August 8, 2018) was an American historian and a prolific author or editor of more than 60 books on a wide range of topics, including the U.S. presidency, World War I, and U.S. foreign policy and diploma ...
, editor, for William S. Triplet, ''A Youth in the Meuse-Argonne, A Colonel in the Armored Divisions, and In the Philippines and Okinawa''
2001
*
Geoffrey P. Megargee (2000): ''Inside Hitler's High Command'' (2000)
Award listing
Society for Military History
See also
* Military history
Military history is the study of armed conflict in the history of humanity, and its impact on the societies, cultures and economies thereof, as well as the resulting changes to local and international relationships.
Professional historians norma ...
* Military history of the United States
* Naval history
Naval warfare is combat in and on the sea, the ocean, or any other battlespace involving a major body of water such as a large lake or wide river. Mankind has fought battles on the sea for more than 3,000 years. Even in the interior of large lan ...
References
External links
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