The Tomlinson Prize

The 2007 Norman B. Tomlinson, Jr. Book Prize has been won by:

Edward G. Lengel For his book To Conquer Hell: The Meuse-Argonne, 1918 Henry Holt & Company, 2008

Dr. Lengel teaches history at the University of Virginia. He receives a check for $3,000.

The winner of the next Tomlinson Book Prize will be announced at our Annual National Seminar (location to be announced) in 2009.

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. The recipient of the Annual Norman B. Tomlinson Jr. Book Award is chosen by a panel chaired by Dennis Showalter of Colorado College. The other panel members are Holger Herwig of the University of Calgary, Hew Strachan of Oxford University, Robert Cowley, formerly editor of Military History Quarterly, and Brigadier General (retired) Robert Doughty, formerly chairman of the History Department at the United States Military Academy.

Previous Winners
2006	Pyrrhic Victory: French Strategy and Operations in the Great War by Brigadier General Robert A. Doughty Harvard University Press
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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