1997 awards and prizes
Recipients of the Society's awards, prizes and grants presented in 1997.
Samuel Eliot Morison Prize
For a body of contributions to military history over a career.
Distinguished Book Awards
The best book-length publications in English on military history, in four categories.
Courage and Air Warfare: The Allied Aircrew Experience in the Second World War
American Samurai: Myth, Imagination, and the Conduct of Battle in the First Marine Division, 1941-1951
The Vandervort Prizes
Outstanding journal articles in military history, in the Journal and beyond it.
General Staff Historian Hugo Freiherr von Freytag-Loringhoven and the Dialectics of German Military Thought · The Journal of Military History Vol. 60, No. 3, July 1996
Trenchard and "Morale Bombing": The Evolution of Royal Air Force Doctrine Before World War II · The Journal of Military History Vol. 60, No. 2, April 1996
Kadesh Revisited: Reconstructing the Battle Between the Egyptians and the Hittites · The Journal of Military History Vol. 60, No. 3, July 1996
The Vietnam War, 1964-1969: A Chinese Perspective · The Journal of Military History Vol. 60, No. 4, October 1996
Edwin H. Simmons Award
For long, distinguished or particularly outstanding service to the Society.