Alexander Watson has won the Guggenheim-Lehrman Prize in Military History for Ring of Steel: Germany and Austria-Hungary in World War I. The prize, which is awarded annually to the best book in military history in English, includes a $50,000 purse.
The winner was announced at ceremony at the New-York Historical Society last night. The book, from Basic Books, is an analysis of World War I from the perspective of the Central Powers.
The title was one of three works that were shortlisted for the prize. The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams, and the Making of Modern China by Julia Lovell (Overlook Press) and The Long Shadow: The Legacies of the Great War in the Twentieth Century by David Reynolds were also nominated for the award.