AHA Award Recipients
Paul
Birdsall Prize
in European Military and Strategic History
The Paul Birdsall Prize in European Military and Strategic History was established in 1985 by a generous gift from Professor Hans Gatzke, who remained anonymous until his death.
The Birdsall Prize is currently awarded biennially for the most important work on European military or strategic history since 1870 by a citizen of the United States or Canada. Paul Birdsall (d. 1970) was a historian of European diplomatic and military affairs and a foreign service officer.
2008 |
Jeffrey A. Engel, Cold War at 30,000 Feet: The Anglo-American Fight for Aviation Supremacy (Harvard Univ. Press, 2007) |
2006 |
Mark Atwood Lawrence, University of Texas at Austin, Assuming the Burden: Europe and the American Commitment to War in Vietnam (University of California Press, 2005) |
2004 |
Robert M. Citino, Eastern Michigan University. Blitzkrieg to Desert Storm: The Evolution of Operational Warfare ( University Press of Kansas, 2004) |
2002 |
Matthew Connelly, Columbia University. A Diplomatic Revolution: Algeria's Fight for Independence and the Origins of the Post-Cold War Era (Oxford University Press, 2002) |
2000 |
Marc Trachtenberg, U. of Pennsylvania. A Constructed Peace: The Making of the European Settlement, 1945–63 (Princeton Univ. Press, 1999) |
1998 |
John F. Beeler, U. of Alabama. British Naval Policy in the Gladstone-Disraeli Era, 1866-1880 (Stanford University Press, 1997) |
1996 |
David G. Hermann, Tulane U., The Arming of Europe and the Making of the First World War (Princeton U. Press, 1996) |
1994 |
Leondard V. Smith, Oberlin College, Between Mutiny and Obedience (Princeton U. Press, 1994) |
1992 |
Dennis E. Showalter, Colorado College, Tannenberg: Clash of Empires (Archon/The Shoe String Press, 1991) |
1990 |
Brian Loring Villa, U. of Ottawa, Unauthorized.Action: Mountbatten and the Dieppe Raid (Oxford U. Press, 1989) |
1988 |
No award |
1986 |
Col. Robert A. Doughty, U.S. Military Academy, The Seeds of Disaster: The Development of the French Army Doctrine, 1919–1939 (Shoe String Press of Archeon Books) |
