2008 Napoleon Series Writing Contest Winners!

We are pleased to announce the winners of the 2008 Napoleon Series Writing Contest!

Best Publication and/or Translation into English of New Archival Material or Books Long Out of Print

A Biographical Dictionary of All Austrian Generals during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars 1792 - 1815 By Leopold Kudrna , with Biographical Essays by Digby Smith.

Best Publication and/or Translation into English of New Archival Material or Books Long Out of Print Honorable Mention:

Chassé's Division at Waterloo: Two Eye-witness Accounts By Bas de Groot

Best Military Paper:

The Swedish Army in the Napoleonic Wars By Magnus Olofsson

Best Military Paper Honorable Mention:

‘My duty is to execute the Emperor’s orders’: Grouchy at Walhain, 18 June 1815 By Stephen Millar

Best Social, Economic, Political, Cultural, or Scientific Paper:

The Power and Question of Faith: Murad Bey’s Pros and Cons during the French Invasion of Egypt, 1798-1801 By Eman M. Vovsi 

Best Social, Economic, Political, Cultural, or Scientific Paper Honorable Menion:

Joachim Murat and the Kingdom of Naples:  1808 – 1815 By Dale Pappas

I would like to thank our four judges, who so generously volunteered their time!

Dr. John G. Gallaher

J. David Markham

Dr. Alexander Mikaberidze

Colonel Jack Gill

Congratulations to all of our winners!

Robert Burnham