Pritzker Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing
The Pritzker Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing (formerly: Pritzker Military Library Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing and Pritzker Military Library Literature Award ) is an award for American military history awarded annually since 2007 by the Pritzker Military Museum & Library in Chicago. Namesake is Colonel Jennifer N. Pritzker . The award is endowed with $ 100,000 and is sponsored by the Tawani Foundation .
It is awarded for both non-fiction and fiction, or a combination of the two, which have advanced public understanding of US military history issues. The nationality of the authors and the language in which the books were published are irrelevant.
Award winners
- 2007 James M. McPherson , especially for Battle cry of Freedom , his story of the American Civil War .
- 2008 Allan R. Millett , author of books on the US Marine Corps, American policy of intervention in Cuba 1906-1909, World War II and the Korean War
- 2009 Gerhard L. Weinberg , for his books about World War II
- 2010 Rick Atkinson , for his books on the role of Americans in World War II in Europe and the Gulf War.
- 2011 Carlo D'Este , for books about the Second World War in Europe, including biographies of Patton, Eisenhower and Churchill and about the landings in Normandy and Sicily
- 2012 Max Hastings , for books on World War II
- 2013 Tim O'Brien , for novels
- 2014 Antony Beevor , for his life's work
- 2015 David Hackett Fischer
- 2016 Hew Strachan , for his books on the First World War
- 2017 Peter Paret , for his life's work
- 2018 Dennis Showalter
- 2019 John H. Morrow Junior
- 2020 David M. Glantz