The
Tomlinson Prize
The 2009 Norman B. Tomlinson, Jr. Book
Prize has been won by:
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William J. Philpott
For his book
Bloody Victory: The Sacrifice on the Somme and
the Making of the Twentieth Century
Little Brown, 2009
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The winner of the 2009 Norman B. Tomlinson Jr. Book Prize is William J.
Philpott for his book Bloody Victory: The Sacrifice on the Somme and
the Making of the Twentieth Century, Little Brown, 2009. This prize
of $3,000 is offered annually by the United States Branch of the Western
Front Association for the best work of history on World War One in English.
Dr. Philpott's book will be published in the United States in October 2010 by
Knopf Doubleday under the title Three Armies on the Somme: The First
Battle of the Twentieth Century. Dr. Philpott is senior lecturer in
the Department of War Studies at King's University, London.
The winner is selected by a panel chaired by Professor Dennis Showalter of
Colorado College, a past President of the Society for Military History. Other
panelists are Dr. Michael Neiberg of the University of Southern Mississippi
and Ambassador (retired) Leonard G. Shurtleff, past President of The Western
Front Association's U.S. Branch.
Previous
Winners
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2008
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The Second Battle of the Marne
by Michael Neiberg
University of Indiana Press, 2008
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2007
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To Conquer Hell: The Meuse-Argonne,
1918
by Edward Lengel
Henry Holt & Company, 2008
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2006
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Pyrrhic Victory: French Strategy and
Operations in the Great War
by Brigadier General
Robert A. Doughty
Harvard University Press
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2005
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Fighting Different Wars: Experience,
Memory and the First World War in Britain
by Janet S.K. Watson
Cambridge University Press
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2004
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A Fraternity of Arms: America and
France in the Great War
by Robert B. Bruce
University of Kansas Press
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2003
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France and The Great War, 1914-1918
by Leonard V. Smith, Stephane
Audoin-Rouzeau & Annette Becker
Cambridge University Press
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2002
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German Atrocities, 1914:
A History of Denial
by John Horne & Alan Kramer,
Yale University Press
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2001
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The First World War Volume I: To Arms
by Hew Strachan,
Oxford University Press
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2000
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Sir John Fisher's Naval Revolution
by Nicholas A. Lambert,
University of South Carolina Press
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1999
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The First World War: Germany and
Austria-Hungary, 1914-1918
by Holger H. Herwig,
Edward Arnold Publishing
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