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Distinguished Book Awards

The Distinguished Book Awards recognize the best book-length publications in English on military history, whether monograph, bibliography, guide, or other project copyrighted in the previous three calendar years. Awards are given out at the Society's annual meeting the spring following the competition.

• Richard S. Faulkner, School of Hard Knocks: Combat Leadership in the American Expeditionary Forces
• Robert M. Citino, The Wehrmacht Retreats: Fighting a Lost War, 1943
• Geoffrey Roberts, 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

• John Sloan Brown, Kevlar Legions: The Transformation of the U.S. Army, 1989-2005
• Mark Peattie, 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, Manstein: Hitler's Greatest General
• Steven E. Clay, US Army Order of Battle 1919-1941 (4 vols.)

• 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, ed. The Oxford Encyclopedia of Medieval Warfare and Military Technology

• 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, ed. The Encyclopedia of the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars

• 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, ed. The Cambridge History of Greek and Roman Warfare.

• Jon Latimer, 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.

• 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, editor. Encyclopedia of War and American Society. 3 vols.

• 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

• Edward M. Coffman, The Regulars: The American Army, 1898-1941
• Robert M. Citino, Blitzkrieg to Desert Storm: The Evolution of Operational Warfare
• James T. Controvich, United States Army Unit and Organizational Histories: A Bibliography

• George C. Rable, 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

• Rick Atkinson, An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943
• Hew Strachan, 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

• Mark Stoler, Allies and Adversaries: The Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Grand Alliances, and U.S. Strategy in World War II
• Ronald H. Spector, At War At Sea: Sailors and Naval Combat in the Twentieth Century
• Robert H. Ferrell, editor, for William S. Triplet, A Youth in the Meuse-Argonne, A Colonel in the Armored Divisions, and In the Philippines and Okinawa

• Geoffrey P. Megargee, Inside Hitler's High Command
• Brian McAllister Linn, The Philippine War, 1899-1902
• John Whiteclay Chambers II (Editor in Chief), The Oxford Companion to American Military History

• Peter R. Mansoor, The GI Offensive in Europe: The Triumph of American Infantry Divisions, 1941-1945
• Nicholas A. Lambert, Sir John Fisher's Naval Revolution

• David C. Evans and Mark R. Peattie, Kaigun: Strategy, Tactics, and Technology in the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1887-1941
• John Sugden, Tecumseh: A Life

• Brian McAllister Linn, Guardians of Empire: The U.S. Army and the Pacific, 1902-1940
• James B. Wood, The King's Army: Warfare, Soldiers, and Society during the Wars of Religion in France, 1562-1576

• Mark K. Wells, Courage and Air Warfare: The Allied Aircrew Experience in the Second World War
• Craig M. Cameron, American Samurai: Myth, Imagination, and the Conduct of Battle in the First Marine Division, 1941-1951

• George W. Baer, One Hundred Years of Sea Power: The U.S. Navy, 1890-1990
• David Reynolds, Rich Relations: The American Occupation of Britain, 1942-1945

• David Hackett Fischer, Paul Revere's Ride
• Gerhard L. Weinberg, A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II

• John Keegan, A History of Warfare
• William B. Skelton, An American Profession of Arms: The Army Officer Corps, 1784-1861

• Douglas Porch, The French Foreign Legion
• Edward S. Miller, War Plan Orange: The U.S. Strategy to Defeat Japan, 1897-1945

• Russell F. Weigley, The Age of Battles: The Quest for Decisive Warfare from Breitenfeld to Waterloo
• Joseph T. Glatthaar, Forged in Battle: The Civil War Alliance of Black Soldiers and White Officers

• Bettie J. Morden, The Women's Army Corps, 1945-1978
• Benjamin Isaac, Limits of Empire: The Roman Army in the East

• Martin Van Creveld, Technology and War from 2000 B.C. to the Present
• Donald R. Hickey, The War of 1812: A Forgotten Conflict

• James M. McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom: The Era of the Civil War
• Geoffrey Parker, The Military Revolution: Military Innovation and the Rise of the West

• John W. Chambers, II, To Raise an Army: The Draft Comes to Modern America

• Donald Smythe, Pershing: General of the Armies