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." It is named in memory of
Charles Perry Stacey
Colonel Charles Perry Stacey (30 July 1906 – 17 November 1989) was a Canadian historian and university professor. He served as the official historian of the Canadian Army in the Second World War and published extensively on military and pol ...
who was the official historian of the Canadian Army in the Second World War.
Winners
*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
Timothy Donald Cook (born November 1, 1960) is an American business executive who has been the chief executive officer of Apple Inc. since 2011. Cook previously served as the company's chief operating officer under its co-founder Steve Jobs. ...
: ''No Place to Run: The Canadian Corps and Gas Warfare in the First World War''
*2002 - Brian Tennyson,
Roger Sarty
Roger Sarty (born 27 September 1952 in Halifax, Nova Scotia) is among Canada's leading historians, specializing in the history of Canada's Navy and coastal defence.
Early life and education
Sarty was born and raised in Halifax, Nova Scotia befor ...
: ''Guardian of the Gulf: Sydney, Cape Breton and the Atlantic Wars''
*2004 -
Marc Milner
Joseph Marc Milner, (born 12 April 1954) is a Canadian military and naval historian, author of several books including one novel. He is Director of the Gregg Centre for the Study of War and Society at the University of New Brunswick.
Early life an ...
: ''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 Carman Irwin Miller (born 1940) is a military historian and former Dean of Arts at McGill University in Montreal.
Born in Moser River, Nova Scotia, Miller received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1960 and a Bachelor of Education degree in 1961 from ...
: ''A Knight in Politics: A Biography of Sir Frederick Borden''
*2011 - Dean Frederick Oliver,
Jack Granatstein
Jack Lawrence Granatstein (May 21, 1939) is a Canadian historian who specializes in Canadian political and military history.SeJack Granatsteinfrom The Canadian Encyclopedia
Education
Born on May 21, 1939, in Toronto, Ontario, into a Jewish fam ...
: ''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
Timothy Donald Cook (born November 1, 1960) is an American business executive who has been the chief executive officer of Apple Inc. since 2011. Cook previously served as the company's chief operating officer under its co-founder Steve Jobs. ...
: ''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
Irene Gammel is a Canadian literary historian, biographer, and curator. She has published numerous books including ''Baroness Elsa'', a groundbreaking cultural biography of New York Dada artist and poet Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, and ...
: ''I Can Only Paint: The Story of Battlefield Artist Mary Riter Hamilton''
2020-21 Winner & Past Winners
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*2022 - David A. Wilson: ''Canadian Spy Story: Irish Revolutionaries and the Secret Police''
References
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Awards established in 1988
1988 establishments in Canada
English-language literary awards
Canadian non-fiction literary awards