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The ballots have been cast, the votes counted, and we are delighted to announce the winners of the MHM Book Awards. We curated a list of 2025’s best military history titles, and asked you, our readers, to vote for your favourite. Our selection included some of the best-researched, most insightful, and most-readable titles reviewed and featured in the magazine over the past year. The winners are below!
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MHM BOOK OF THE YEAR
WINNER – GOLD AWARD
Lest We Forget: war and peace in 100 British monuments
Why did Scotland take 600 years to commemorate its most famous freedom fighter? When did Wellington become an anti-establishment figure? And can the Cenotaph ever stay above politics? Our Gold Award winner Tessa Dunlop travelled the length and breadth of Britain to explore what monuments and memorials say about the country and its history.
For an interview with Tessa Dunlop, see here.
Lest We Forget: war and peace in 100 British monuments
Tessa Dunlop
HarperCollins
WINNER – SILVER AWARD
Ring of Fire: a new global history of the outbreak of the First World War
Across the capitals of Europe, no one really understood the calamity that was about to erupt in the summer of 1914. In this new global history, Alex Churchill and Nicolai Eberholst offer a ‘people’s view’ of WWI’s outbreak, with an eyewitness-based account of the events of 1914 around the world.
Ring of Fire: a new global history of the outbreak of the First World War
Alex Churchill and Nicolai Eberholst
Apollo
WINNER – BRONZE AWARD
Chain of Fire: campaigning in Egypt and the Sudan, 1882-1898
It was the height of European colonialism. Injustices were administered, bloody battles fought, and civilians caught in the crossfire. In Chain of Fire, Peter Hart presents the gripping story of the siege of Khartoum and Britain’s 1882 campaign in Egypt and Sudan, using the testimonies of the men who fought and died there.
Chain of Fire: campaigning in Egypt and the Sudan, 1882-1898
Peter Hart
Profile Books
