SHORTLIST ANNOUNCED FOR INAUGURAL MILITARY HISTORY BOOK PRIZE

Winner of the Guggenheim-Lehrman Prize in Military History to be Named March 17The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation announced today the shortlist of six books in contention for the inaugural Guggenheim-Lehrman Prize in Military History. The winner of the $50,000 prize will be announced at a ceremony March 17 at the New-York Historical Society in New York City.             “We were inundated with some great works of military history, scholarly, well-written and on important historical subjects,” said the chairman of the judging committee, Prof. Andrew Roberts. “There were many books that