United States Commission on Military History

Collins Book Prize Winners

Previous winners of the Collins Book Prize:

Stephen G. Fritz, Ostkrieg: Hitler’s War of Extermination in the East (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2011).

David Crist, The Twilight War: The Secret History of America’s Thirty-Year Conflict with Iran (New York: Penguin, 2012).

Frank L. Jones, Blowtorch: Robert Komer, Vietnam, and American Cold War Strategy (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2013).

Marc Milner, Stopping the Panzers: The Untold Story of D-Day (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2014).

Douglas A. Murphy, Two Armies on the Rio Grande: The First Campaign of the US-Mexican War (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2015).

Hughes, Thomas A., Admiral Bill Halsey: A Naval Life (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2016).

Villalon, L.J. Andrew and Donald J. Kagay, To Win and Lose a Medieval Battle: Naejera (April 3, 1367), a Pyrrhic Victory for the Black Prince (Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2017).

Haynes, Christine, Our Friends the Enemy: The Occupation of France After Napoleon (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018).

Taaffe, Stephen R., Washington’s Revolutionary War Generals (Norman, OK: Oklahoma University Press, 2019).