The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation has revealed the shortlist for the second annual Guggenheim-Lehrman Prize in Military History.
The books on the 2014 shortlist include: The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams, and the Making of Modern China by Julia Lovell (Overlook Press); The Long Shadow: The Legacies of the Great War in the Twentieth Century by David Reynolds (W.W. Norton); and Ring of Steel : Germany and Austria-Hungary in World War I by Alexander Watson (Basic Books).
The winner of the $50,000 prize will be revealed at the New-York Historical Society on March 23rd.
“Our purpose in establishing this annual prize is to restore the serious pursuit of military history in research, scholarship, and writing—in recent times ignored by the American academic community,” stated Josiah Bunting III, president of the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation.