2005 Templer Award: Shortlisted Books
French, David, Military Identities: the Regimental System, the British Army & the British People (Oxford University Press);
Mitchinson, K.W. (Bill), Defending Albion: Britain’s Home Army 1908-1919 (Palgrave Macmillan);
Snape, Michael, The Redcoat and Religion: the forgotten history of the British Soldier from the Age of Marlborough to the Eve of the First World War (Routledge);
Snape, Michael: God and the British Soldier: Religion and the British Army in the First and Second World Wars (Routledge).
Stephen Wood,
Chairman,
Templer Book Prize committee,
28th February 2006