![]() “We were hugely impressed with all the six books on our shortlist, but McManus’s work stood out, and it more than satisfied each of our four key criteria, which are that it must be historically ground-breaking, excellently researched, extremely well written, and accessible to the general reader.” “This year the Gilder Lehrman Institute Military History Prize judges were unanimous in awarding the $50,000 prize to John McManus’s splendid Fire and Fortitude: The US Army in the Pacific War, 1941-43,” said Professor Andrew Roberts, chair of the judging committee. A program celebrating the winner and the shortlisted authors will be recorded and released on Thursday, November 5. The $50,000 prize is bestowed annually in recognition of the best book in the field of military history published in English during the previous calendar year. McManus has been awarded the seventh annual Gilder Lehrman Prize for Military History for Fire and Fortitude: The US Army in the Pacific War, 1941-1943 (Dutton-Penguin). New York, NY, Septem– The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History announced today that John C. ![]() ![]() ![]() Winner of the Seventh Annual Gilder Lehrman Prize for Military History AnnouncedĪward Program Available Online Thursday, November 5, 2020 ![]()
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