Military and defence strategy

Winner: Air Force Historical Foundation AwardWhen large formations of Allied four-engine bombers finally flew over Europe, it marked the beginning of the end for the Third Reich.

The true story of Australia's SAS and the soldier who was there from the start.

an engrossing narrative, beautifully controlled by a master storyteller' Michael McKernan, Sydney Morning Herald The bestselling, acclaimed, authoritative account of one of the most famous battles in Australian military history now established as a classic.

Clive 'Killer' Caldwell was a natural and brilliant pilot, a superb shot, and a born leader.

The CIA is at the top of a cosmology of government and private concerns known collectively as the intelligence community.

In The Siege of Vicksburg: Climax of the Campaign to Open the Mississippi River, May 23July 4, 1863, noted Civil War scholar Timothy B.

Southern Strategies is the first-ever analysis of Confederate defeat using the lenses of classical strategic and leadership theory.

American fighting men had never seen the likes of it before.

Winner: Arthur Goodzeit AwardThroughout 1943, the German army, heirs to a military tradition that demanded and perfected relentless offensive operations, succumbed to the realities of its own overreach and the demands of twentieth-century industrialized warfare.

Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Book Award If the Battle of the Bulge was Germany's last gasp, it was also America's proving ground-the largest single action fought by the U.

Winner: Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing AwardWhen American and South Vietnamese forces, led by General Creighton Abrams, launched an attack into neutral Cambodia in 1970, the invasion ignited a firestorm of violent antiwar protests throughout the United States, dealing yet another blow to Nixon's troubled presidency.

For Hitler and the German military, 1942 was a key turning point of World War II, as an overstretched but still lethal Wehrmacht replaced brilliant victories and huge territorial gains with stalemates and strategic retreats.

Winner: Society for Military History Distinguished Book AwardThis year begins the centennial of the Philippine War, one of the most controversial and poorly understood events in American history.

The Soviet-German War of 19411945 was the most extensive intelligence/counterintelligence war in modern history, involving the capture, torture, deportation, execution, and doubling of tens of thousands of agentsmost of them Soviet citizens.

When the Red Army invaded Finland in November 1939 most observers expected a walkover.

When President George W.

Winner: Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Book AwardDuring the Civil War, thirty-six officers in the Army of the Potomac were assigned corps commands of up to 30,000 men.

Originally published in 1999, America's Space Sentinels won the American Astronautical Society's prestigious Eugene Emme Astronautical Literature Award and quickly established itself as the definitive book for understanding a crucial component of our national defense capabilities.

With Allied armies poised on the banks of the Rhine, Nazi Germany tottered on the brink of collapse.

Choice Outstanding TitleIt was one of the most ruthlessly conceived and executed invasions in the annals of warfare.

Honorable Mention: Theodore and Franklin D.

Did Americas departure from Vietnam produce the "e;peace with honor"e; promised by President Richard Nixon or was that simply an empty wish meant to distract war-weary Americans from a tragic defeat with shame?

In 1847 General Winfield Scott boldly led a small but undaunted army from the Mexican coast all the way to the Halls of Montezuma, routing Mexican forces at every turn while pacifying the countryside.

Through widespread and relentless surprise attacks and ambushes, Confederate guerrillas drove Union soldiers and their leaders to desperation.

When the Korean War broke out in 1950, the Marine Corps was ordered to deploy an air-ground brigade in less than ten days, even though no such brigade existed at the time.

By the time Hitler declared war on the Soviet Union in 1941, he knew that his military machine was running out of fuel.

It seemed that whenever Mussolini acted on his own, it was bad news for Hitler.

Midway through 1942, Japanese and Allied forces found themselves fighting on two frontsin New Guinea and the Solomon Islands.

The Psychological War for Vietnam, 19601968, for the first time fully explores the most sustained, intensive use of psychological operations (PSYOP) in American history.

There is more to defense than military might and more to the military than a fighting force.

On the eve of World War II, the British army was more an international police force than a true combat-ready fighting machine.

Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Book AwardMost histories of the U.

Carl von Clausewitz (17801831) is best known for his masterpiece of military theory On War, yet that work formed only the first three of his ten-volume published writings.

Carl von Clausewitz (1780-1831) is best known for his masterpiece of military theory On War, yet that work formed only the first three of his ten-volume published writings.

Winner: Society for Military History Distinguished Book AwardPopular impressions of the imperial Japanese army still promote images of suicidal banzai charges and fanatical leaders blindly devoted to their emperor.

Choice Outstanding TitleWhen the major powers sent troops to the Korean peninsula in June of 1950, it supposedly marked the start of one of the last centurys bloodiest conflicts.

About the Allies victory in the Pacific in WWII, it goes almost without question that Japans defeat was inevitable in the face of overwhelming American military might and economic power.

Winner: Air Force Historical Foundation AwardWhen large formations of Allied four-engine bombers finally flew over Europe, it marked the beginning of the end for the Third Reich.

From the American Revolution to the global war on terror, U.

A riveting account of espionage for the digital age, from one of America's leading intelligence expertsSpying has never been more ubiquitous-or less understood.

How nonstate military strategies overturn traditional perspectives on warfareSince September 11th, 2001, armed nonstate actors have received increased attention and discussion from scholars, policymakers, and the military.

A riveting account of espionage for the digital age, from one of America's leading intelligence expertsSpying has never been more ubiquitous-or less understood.

Leadership is not a rank, it is a responsibility.

In attempting to analyze the role of luck in war, a rather narrow definition of luck is necessary.

Extensively researched, painstakingly documented, and dedicated to the courageous men and women who fought and served in the First War with Iraq, this is a factual military history of Operation Desert Storm-and the only readable and thorough chronicle of the entire war.

These were the crimes that were meant to change the world, and sometimes did.

Low Intensity Operations is an important, controversial and prophetic book that has had a major influence on the conduct of modern warfare.