The C.P. Stacey Prize (also known as the C.P. Stacey Award) is given by the C.P. Stacey Award Committee and the Laurier Centre for Military Strategic and Disarmament Studies (the LCMSDS took over administration of the award in 2018 from the Canadian Committee for the History of the Second World War) "for distinguished publications on the twentieth-century military experience."[1] It is named in memory of Charles Perry Stacey who was the official historian of the Canadian Army in the Second World War.[2]
Winners
edit- 1988 - Norman Hillmer, W. A. B. Douglas: The Official History of the Royal Canadian Air Force, Volume II: The Creation of a National Air Force
- 1990 - Robert Vogel, Terry Copp: Maple Leaf Route
- 1992 - Bill McAndrew, Terry Copp: Battle Exhaustion
- 1994 - Desmond Morton: When Your Number's Up
- 1996 - George Blackburn: The Guns of Victory
- 1998 - Jonathan F.W. Vance: Death So Noble: Memory, Meaning and the First World War
- 2000 - Tim Cook: No Place to Run: The Canadian Corps and Gas Warfare in the First World War
- 2002 - Brian Tennyson, Roger Sarty: Guardian of the Gulf: Sydney, Cape Breton and the Atlantic Wars
- 2004 - Marc Milner: Battle of the Atlantic
- 2004 - Béatrice Richard: La mémoire de Dieppe - Radioscopie d'un mythe
- 2006 - Douglas Delaney: Bert Hoffmeister: The Soldier's General
- 2008 - Stephen Brumwell: Paths of Glory: The Life and Death of General James Wolfe
- 2008 - Paul Douglas Dickson: A Thoroughly Canadian General: A Biography of General H.D.G. Crerar
- 2009 - Kevin Spooner: Canada, The Congo Crisis and U.N. Peacekeeping
- 2010 - Carman Miller: A Knight in Politics: A Biography of Sir Frederick Borden[3][4]
- 2011 - Dean Frederick Oliver, Jack Granatstein: The Oxford Companion to Canadian Military History
- 2012 - Andrew Burtch: Give Me Shelter: The Failure of Canada’s Cold War Civil Defence
- 2013 - Teresa Iacobelli: Death or Deliverance: Canadian Courts Martial in the Great War
- 2014 - Tim Cook: The Necessary War, Volume 1: Canadians Fighting The Second World War:1939-1943
- 2014 - Richard M. Reid: African Canadians in Union Blue: Volunteering for the Cause in the Civil War
- 2015 - Norman Hillmer: O.D. Skelton: A Portrait of Canadian Ambition
- 2016 - Brock Millman: Polarity, Patriotism and Dissent in Great War Canada, 1914-1919
- 2017 - Geoffrey Hayes: Crerar's Lieutenants: Inventing the Canadian Junior Army Officer, 1939-45
- 2018 - Jonathan F.W. Vance: A Township at War
- 2019 - Bob Bergen: Scattering Chaff: Canadian Air Power and Censorship during the Kosovo War
- 2020/21 - Irene Gammel: I Can Only Paint: The Story of Battlefield Artist Mary Riter Hamilton[5][6]
- 2022 - David A. Wilson: Canadian Spy Story: Irish Revolutionaries and the Secret Police
References
edit- ^ Government of Canada, National Defence (January 1, 2001). "Contact US ; Canadian Committee for the History of the Second World War". www.cmp-cpm.forces.gc.ca.
- ^ C.P. Stacey Award for scholarly work in Canadian military history
- ^ McGill Reporter News in brief for the week of January 9, 2012 : Miller wins book prize
- ^ McGill-Queens University Press, Best Book in Canadian Military History, Dec 19, 2011: The jury states, "In chronicling the 69-year life of a remarkable Canadian, Miller has done what only the best biographers can do – use the individual’s story to impart a deeper understanding of the events and society of their time. With A Knight in Politics, Miller reminds us that people are at the centre of history. To understand the life of a man who came from respected Nova Scotia family, graduated from Harvard medical school, made a small fortune as an entrepreneur, became a Member of Parliament at the age of thirty, and held the Cabinet post of Minister of Militia and Defence during fifteen formative years for the Canadian military (1896-1911) is to know something of society, business, politics, British Imperial relations, and military affairs in turn-of-the-century Canada. Richly researched and written with grace, A Knight in Politics will engage anyone, scholar or layperson, wanting to learn more about the public affairs of Canada and the people who conducted them in the decades that preceded the Great War."
- ^ Scholar Irene Gammel named winner of the 2020-2021 C.P. Stacey Award for best book in Canadian military history
- ^ 2020-21 Winner & Past Winners