SAHR Templer Long List released
Thursday 9th January 2025
The judging panel for the SAHR Templer Medal, and the associated Chapple Prize for best first book, have completed their initial deliberations and released a joint long list of titles eligible for the 2024 awards. The panel selected the following volumes (presented alphabetically) on the basis of the established criteria, including whether the book made a significant contribution to knowledge; whether it was accurate and thoroughly researched with full bibliography and referencing; whether the argument was clear and supported; and whether it was well written and comprehensible to a well-informed reader of military history.
A shortlist of titles for the respective prizes will be released later in the year. The winners will be announced at the SAHR's Annual General Meeting in April.
Dr Remy Ambūhl and Dr Andy King (eds), Documenting Warfare: Records of the Hundred Years War - Essays in Honour of Anne Curry (Boydell & Brewer)
Dr Ian Atherton, Britons and their Battlefields (OUP)
General Sir Richard Barrons, War and Peace: The Life and Times of General Sir Richard Barrons (Pen & Sword)
Paul Dawson, The Napoleonic ‘Dad’s Army’: The British Volunteer Movement, 1794-1814 (Frontline)
Dr Aimée Fox, The Military Papers and Correspondence of Major General Guy Dawnay, 1915-19 (Boydell for ARS)
Lavinia Greacen, Military Maverick: Selected Letters and War Diary of ‘Chink’ Dorman-Smith (Pen & Sword)
James Holland, Cassino ’44 (Bantam)
Dr Geraint Hughes, Britain and the Dhofar War in Oman, 1965-76: A Covert War in Arabia (Palgrave Macmillan)
Professor Ronald Hutton, Oliver Cromwell: Commander-in-Chief (Yale University Press)
Robert Kershaw, The Hill: The Brutal Fight for Hill 107 in the Battle of Crete (Osprey)
Lieutenant General Sir John Kiszely, General Hastings ‘Pug’ Ismay: Soldier, Statesman, Diplomat - A New Biography (Hurst)
Professor David Lambert, Soldiers of Uncertain Rank: The West India Regiments in British Imperial Culture (CUP)
Frank Ledwidge, Dr Helen Parr, and Dr Aaron Edwards (eds), Ground Truth: The Moral Component in Contemporary British Warfare (Bloomsbury)
Dr Kevin Linch, The British Army, 1783-1815 (Pen & Sword)
Professor Pedro Luengo and Professor Gene Smith (eds), A Fortified Sea: The Defence of the Caribbean in the 18th Century (University of Alabama Press)
Dr Phil McCarty, Point of Failure: British Brigadiers in France and Norway, 1940 (Helion)
Sergio Miller, Pride and Fall: The British Army in Afghanistan, 2001-2014 (Bloomsbury)
Al Murray, Arnhem: Black Tuesday (Bantam)
Dr Harman Murtagh and Dr Diarmuid Murtagh, The Irish Jacobite Army, 1689-91: Anatomy of the Force (Four Courts)
Lt. Colonel Derek Plews, A Brilliant Little Victory: The 48th (South Midland) Division on the Western and Italian Fronts in the First World War (Helion)
Dr Stephen Quick, The Dhofar War: British Covert Campaigning in Arabia, 1965-1975 (University of Exeter Press)
Professor Vaughan Scribner, Under Alien Skies: Environment, Suffering and the Defeat of the British Military in Revolutionary America (University of North Carolina Press)
Sean Scullion, Churchill’s Spaniards: Continuing the Fight in the British Army, 1939-46 (Helion)
Professor Peter Stanley, John Company’s Armies: The Military Forces of British India, 1757-1947 (Helion)
David Syrett, The Eyes of the Desert Rats: British Long Range Reconnaissance in the North African Desert, 1940-43 (Helion)
Dr David Trim and Dr Brendan Simms (eds), Harfleur to Hamburg: Five Centuries of English and British Violence in Europe (Hurst)
Graham Turner, The Wars of the Roses: The Mediaeval Art of Graham Turner (Bloomsbury)
Dr Wendy Ugolini, Wales in England, 1914-1945: A Social, Cultural and Military History (OUP)
Colonel Dennis Vincent, The Forgotten General: Sir Alan Cunningham (Amberley)
Dr Roger Wood, The Best of Appointments? The Evolution of Infantry Brigade Command in the British Army on the Western Front, 1915-18 (Helion)
Iain Wood, Waterloo: A Sunday Morning at Hougoumont (Privately published)