Duke of Westminster's Medal for Military Literature
The Duke of Westminster's Medal for Military Literature was a British award given annually between 1997 and 2015 by the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) in London , an independent security research institute, to living authors who made a remarkable and original contribution to a book in the field of defense studies or had published national or international security issues . The award, which was supported by the Duke of Westminster , was independent of the nationality, gender or age of the author. In addition to the main prize, a shortlist of five books has also been published since 2005 . In 2008, the British military writer Sir Max Hastings was the first and only author to receive a Special Lifetime Achievement Award in addition to the regular award for his important and lasting contribution to military history .
Award winners
- 1997: Andrew Gordon for The Rules of the Game: Jutland and the British Naval Command
- 1998: Hew Strachan for The Politics of the British Army
- 1999: John Keegan for The First World War
- 2000: Michael Hickey for The Korean War: The West confronts Communism
- 2001: Norman Friedman for The Fifty-Year War: Conflict and Strategy in the Cold War
- 2002: Sir Percy Cradock for Know Your Enemy: How the Joint Intelligence Committee Saw the World
- 2003: Marrick Goulding for Peacemonger
- 2004: Gerard DeGroot for The Bomb, a Life
- 2005: Nicholas Rodger for The Command of the Ocean: A Naval History of Britain 1649–1815
- 2006: Roger Knight for The Pursuit of Victory: The Life and Achievement of Horatio Nelson
- 2007: Aleksandr Fursenko and Timothy Naftali for Khrushchev's Cold War: The Inside Story of an American Adversary
- 2008: Chris Bellamy for Absolute War: Soviet Russia in the Second World War
- 2009: Sir Lawrence Freedman for A Choice of Enemies: America Confronts the Middle East
- 2010: Antony Beevor for D-Day: The Battle for Normandy
- 2011: Sir Rodric Braithwaite for Afgantsy: The Russians in Afghanistan, 1979–89
- 2012: Sir Max Hastings for All Hell Let Loose: The World at War 1939-1945
- 2013: Anne Applebaum for Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944–56
- 2014: Rana Mitter for China's War With Japan, 1937–1945
- 2015: Peter Hennessy and James Jinks for The Silent Deep: The Royal Navy Submarine Service since 1945