The 11 Finalists for the First-Ever American Battlefield Trust Book Prize for History

Attention, book nerds, history buffs and leadership wonks: It's March Madness for the best books on military history. And no one is better suited to make that call than the American Battlefield Trust.

For nearly 40 years, no organization has done more to preserve the sites where the young United States fought formative battles on its home soil than the American Battlefield Trust. Committed to the memory of the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812 and the Civil War, it now oversees the protection of 58,000 acres at 155 sites in 25 states.

This year, the nonprofit launched the first-ever American Battlefield Trust Book Prize for History to recognize the best written works around these conflicts, judging works that highlight the necessity of preserving historic battlefields as primary sources of historical research.