2003 awards and prizes
Recipients of the Society's awards, prizes and grants presented in 2003.
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.
An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943
The First World War. Volume I: To Arms
Stuart Hills
By Tank Into Normandy: A Memoir of the Campaign in North-West Europe From D-Day to VE Day
David S. Heidler and Jeanne T. Heidler, eds.
Encyclopedia of the American Civil War: A Political and Military History
The Vandervort Prizes
Outstanding journal articles in military history, in the Journal and beyond it.
Strategy, Tactics, and Turf Wars: Tirpitz and the Oberkommando der Marine, 1892-1895 · The Journal of Military History Vol. 66, No. 4, October 2002
"The American Way of War" Revisited · The Journal of Military History Vol. 66, No. 2, April 2002
In the Journal: Russell F. Weigley
Red Army Professionalism and the Communist Party, 1918-1941 · The Journal of Military History Vol. 66, No. 1, January 2002
"It Made a Lot of Sense to Kill Skilled Workers": The Firebombing of Tokyo in March 1945 · The Journal of Military History Vol. 66, No. 1, January 2002
Edwin H. Simmons Award
For long, distinguished or particularly outstanding service to the Society.