2016 Pritzker Literature Award Presentation: Hew Strachan

Award-winning author, historian and military strategist Hew Strachan addresses the audience at the 2016 Liberty Gala following the official presentation of the 2016 Pritzker Military Museum & Library Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing.

Author of 14 major publications, including the first installment of his groundbreaking three-volume work on the Great War The First World War (To Arms), Strachan is known for his incredibly detailed and carefully researched writings. His research interests center on the military history and strategic studies, with particular interest in the First World War and the history of the British Army. Strachan continuously expands the traditional narrow narrative beyond the trenches of the Western Front to consider the conflict's global implications, a method particularly resonant in our increasingly globalized society.

A graduate of Cambridge University, Professor of International Relations at the University of St. Andrews, a Life Fellow of Corpus Christi College of Cambridge, and a Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College of Oxford University.

As a respected and renowned expert in military history, Strachan serves as an advisor on contemporary military affairs in the United Kingdom. He is a member of the Chief of Defense Staff’s Strategic Advisory Panel, the Defense Academy Advisory Board and has been a specialist advisor to the Joint Parliamentary Committee on the National Security Strategy. His services to the Ministry of Defense earned him a knighthood in 2013.

He has been significantly involved in the preparations for the centenary of the First World War, serving on the UK and Scotland national advisory committees and on the Comité Scientifique of the Mission du Centenaire in France. Strachan served as chair of Imperial War Museum’s academic advisory committee for its new First World War galleries and the Commonwealth War Graves Commission’s 2014-18 committee.