The Army has launched its own
annual "booker" prize for a British non-fiction book on any military subject. The idea for the award came from Tim Ward, Head of the Army's Library and Information Services who are organising the whole thing. The winner will be decided by a vote by all serving members of the Armed Forces. Voting for the 2008 award starts on 2nd June and continues until 5th September; the winner will be announced in October.
annual "booker" prize for a British non-fiction book on any military subject. The idea for the award came from Tim Ward, Head of the Army's Library and Information Services who are organising the whole thing. The winner will be decided by a vote by all serving members of the Armed Forces. Voting for the 2008 award starts on 2nd June and continues until 5th September; the winner will be announced in October. The Army Library and Information Service has 66 libraries/centres around the world, including current hot spots, and books can be ordered online over the Army's intranet (Army Net).
And the Nominees the British Army's Military Book of the Year 2008 Award are:
- Paddy Ashdown - Swords and ploughshares: bringing peace to the 21st Century
- Chris Bellamy - Absolute war: Soviet Russia in the Second World War
- Patrick Bishop - 3 Para, Afghanistan, Summer 2006
- David Hart Dyke - Four weeks in May: the loss of HMS Coventry - a Captain's story
- Max Hastings - Nemesis: the battle for Japan, 1944-45
- Chris Hunter - Eight lives down: the story of a bomb-disposal operator's tour in Iraq
- Ian Kershaw - Fateful choices: Ten decisions that changed the world, 1940-1941
- Edward Paice - Tip and run: the untold tragedy of the Great War in Africa
- Jonathon Riley - Napoleon as a general
- Michael Rose - Washington's war: from independence to Iraq
Link> MoD: Shortlist for Army's first Military Book of the Year Award
Of course, Bellamy's Absolute War will win.
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