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The Tomlinson Prize

The 2006 Norman B. Tomlinson, Jr. Book Prize has been won by:

Brigadier General
Robert A. Doughty


For his book


Pyrrhic Victory: French Strategy and Operations in the Great War


Harvard University Press, 2005



Brigadier General (Ret.) Robert A. Doughty served as Professor and Head of the Department of History at the United States Military Academy from 1985 to 2005.

The winner of the next Tomlinson Book Prize will be announced at our Annual National Seminar at the Naval War College, Newport Rhode Island in 2007.

The Tomlinson Prize is awarded annually by the United States Branch of the Western Front Association for the best work of history, in English, on the World War One era. It consists of $3,000 and a certificate. The prize is endowed by Norman B. Tomlinson, Jr., a long-time member and Director-emeritus of the United States Branch of the Western Front Association.

Previous Winners

2005
Fighting Different Wars: Experience, Memory and the First World War in Britain

by Janet S.K. Watson
Cambridge University Press
2004
A Fraternity of Arms: America and France in the Great War

by Robert B. Bruce
University of Kansas Press
2003
France and The Great War, 1914-1918

by Leonard V. Smith, Stephane
Audoin-Rouzeau & Annette Becker
Cambridge University Press
2002
German Atrocities, 1914:
A History of Denial


by John Horne & Alan Kramer,
Yale University Press
2001
The First World War Volume I: To Arms

by Hew Strachan,
Oxford University Press
2000
Sir John Fisher's Naval Revolution

by Nicholas A. Lambert,
University of South Carolina Press
1999
The First World War: Germany and Austria-Hungary, 1914-1918

by Holger H. Herwig,
Edward Arnold Publishing


The annual award winner is selected by a panel chaired by Dennis Showalter, past President of the Society for Military History and Professor of History at Colorado College. The other members of the Prize Panel for 2003 are Holger H. Herwig, Professor of History at the University of Calgary, Dr. Hew Strachan of Oxford University, Brig. Gen. Robert Doughty, retired head of the History Department at West Point, and Robert Cowley, former editor of Military History Quarterly.

rev. 23 June 2007



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