ATTENTION PUBLISHERS
Submit your 2021 books for consideration for the annual Tomlinson Prize Award for the best books in English on World War One. Books published in 2021 – and in a prior year if they were not submitted previously – are eligible. The next round of winners will be determined in early 2022.
For a list of the judges who should receive book submissions, visit
2021 winners
Authors Stefano Marcuzzi, Meighen McCrae, Dennis Showalter and Joseph and Janet Robinson awarded the
2020 Tomlinson prize for their World War One books;
Honorable Mention goes to Paul Gannon
Stefano Marcuzzi for Britain and Italy in the Era of the Great War: Defending and Forging Empires (Cambridge University Press)

Meighen McCrae for Coalition Strategy and the End of the First World War: The Supreme War Council and War Planning, 1917-1918 (Cambridge University Press)

Dennis Showalter, Joseph P. Robinson and Janet A. Robinson for The German Failure in Belgium, August 1914: How Faulty Reconnaissance Exposed the Weakness of the Schlieffen Plan (McFarland & Company). Sadly, Dennis Showalter’s award is posthumous.

For the third year in a row, a book was awarded an Honorable Mention: Paul Gannon’s Before Bletchley Park: The Codebreakers of the First World War (The History Press).

This is the sixth time that multiple books have won the Tomlinson prize. Three 2018 titles shared the award presented in 2019, three books published in 2016 shared the 2017 award, and three 2010 titles also shared the award presented in 2011. Two books published in 2019 received the award in 2020, and two titles published in 2017 received the award in 2018. The Tomlinson prize started in 1999.

The Tomlinson prize consists of a cash award and original bronze plaque sculpted by Andrew L. Chernak, a U.S. Army Vietnam War veteran whose sculptures are installed at Arlington National Cemetery and in state and private parks: andrewchernaksculptures.com

Honorable Mention awards consist of an original bronze plaque sculpted by Chernak.

Both awards are made possible through a grant from Norman B. Tomlinson, Jr., director emeritus of The Western Front Association – United States Branch. (WFA-US became the World War One Historical Association in 2011.)

Historians Graydon Tunstall, Michael Neiberg, and Heather Streets-Salter, plus editor of the WW1HA Tomlinson Prize Review of World War One Books Dana Lombardy form the prize jury for the Norman B. Tomlinson Prize.

Normally the prize is awarded in the year following the calendar year of publication, but there are occasional exceptions to that policy. For information on how to submit books for the prize, email dana.lombardy@gmail.com or neiberg102@gmail.com.

Previous Tomlinson award winners and information about the World War One Historical Association can be found at https://ww1ha.org/lens-bookshelf/the-tomlinson-book-prize/.
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