
Books published in English and bearing a copyright of 2016 or 2017 are eligible for the 2018 prize..
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Paul Birdsall (d. 1970) was a historian of European diplomatic and military affairs and a foreign service officer. See the list of past recipients. The Birdsall Prize is awarded biennially for the most important work published in English on European military or strategic history since 1870. Preference will be given to the international aspects of military history (military/diplomatic), but the impact of technological developments, strategic planning, and military events on society—political, economic, social—will also qualify. Purely technical studies, divorced from historical context, will not. The general rules for submission are: Preference will be given to early-career academics, but established scholars and nonacademic candidates will not be excluded. Books published in English and bearing a copyright of 2018 or 2019 are eligible for the 2020 prize. Nomination submissions may be made by an author or by a publisher. Publishers may submit as many entries as they wish. Authors or publishers may submit the same book for multiple AHA prizes. Nominators must complete an online prize submission form for each book submitted. One copy of each entry must be sent to each committee member and clearly labeled "Birdsall Prize Entry." Print copies preferred unless otherwise indicated. If only e-copy is available, please contact review committee members beforehand to arrange submission format. Please Note: Entries must be received by May 15, 2020, to be eligible for the 2020 competition. Entries will not be returned. Recipients will be announced on the AHA website in October 2020 and recognized during a ceremony at the January 2021 AHA annual meeting in Seattle. For questions, please contact the Prize Administrator. The review committee contact information and prize submission form will be posted by March 1 for submissions due May 15. ### 2018 Birdsall Prize Tarak Barkawi, London School of Economics Soldiers of Empire: Indian and British Armies in World War II (Cambridge Univ. Press) Tarak Barkawi's Soldiers of Empire examines the composition, training, combat performance, and politics of the British Indian Army in the Second World War. This thought-provoking and elegantly written study blends history and sociology to ask fundamental questions about empires, military cohesion, and the relationship between war and social change. Barkawi's work is theoretically rich and based on empirical data from a wealth of sources. Lucid and informative, this book pushes us toward a global history of war. Birdsall Prize Recipients
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