Air, Land and Sea Book Awards

Winners

Award Shields and vouchers from sponsors Osprey Publishing were presented to the winning authors by Professor Richard Holmes - the distinguished military historian.

All but two of the winning authors attended the ceremony to receive in person , including Geirr Haarr whose publisher (Seaforth) flew him in from Norway for the event !

Aviation

• Judges Award - Bernard Marck  "Women Aviators from Amelia Earhart to Sally Ride"
• Judges Award Runner- Up - Michael Korda "With Wings Like Eagles: a history of the Battle of Britain"
• People’s Choice Award  - David Gibbings "Fairey Rotodyne"

Naval

• Judges Award -  Geirr Haarr "The German Invasion of Norway"
• Judges Award Runner- Up - John Roberts "Safeguarding the Nation : the story of the modern Royal Navy"
• People’s Choice Award - John Beattie "Fly Navy, the view form a Jungly cockpit 1958-2008"

Military

• Judges Award - Andrew Salmon "To the Last Round: The Epic British Stand on the Imjin River, Korea, 1951"
  Watch Andrew Salmon discuss the battle of Imjin River
• Judges Award Runner- Up - William Philpott "Bloody Victory : the Sacrifice on the Somme and the Making of the Twentieth Century"
• Judges Award - Highly Commended Antony Beever "D -Day The Battle for Normandy and Andrew Roberts The Storm of War a new history of the Second World War "
• People’s Choice Award  - Christopher Bullock "Britain’s Gurkhas"

Patron and Judging Panel

The Panel will consist of  the members of the Project Committee, and other individuals, drawn from a wide range of experts and enthusiasts, professionals and members of the public.  

Patron

• Professor Richard Holmes, CBE

Project Committee Members

• Andrew Dalziel -  Hampshire Libraries (and on Judging Panel)

• Sally Day – Aldershot Military Museum

• Sally Duncan – Hampshire Libraries (Aviation Collection) (and on Judging Panel)

• Kimberley Ebner - Hampshire Libraries (Military Collection) (and on Judging Panel)

• Frederic Gaine/Adam Say - Hampshire Libraries (Naval Collection)

• Heather Needham – Hampshire Archives and Local Studies

• Sally Martin - Hampshire Libraries

• Jane Weller - Hampshire Libraries (Special Collections Manager) (and on Judging Panel)

• Christine Woodward – National Aerospace Library

Judging Panel Members

• Lt Gen Sir Christopher Wallace - Chairman Winchester's Military Museums Management Committee

• Cdr Alan Mcnaughton, RN ret. Supporter of the Naval Collection at Gosport Discovery Centre

• Ben Chan - Committee member Aerospace & Defence Librarians Group, CILIP

• George Malcolmson - Curator, RN Submarine Museum

• Cllr John Wall - HCC Councillor, Farnborough South Division

• Duncan Sutton - ·Surrey History Centre, Surrey County Council

• Dr C G B Mitchell, Chairman Historical Group of the Royal Aeronautical Society