Professor Ian Beckett has accepted an invitation to join the judging panel for the prestigious Lehrman Institute-New York Historical Society Military History Prize, which awards $50,000 prize each year for the best book published on military history in the English language. Professor Beckett joins the historian and broadcaster Professor Andrew Roberts; the American historical biographer, Flora Fraser; General Josiah Bunting III, President of the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation of New York; and Professor Allen Guelzo of Gettysburg College. For the last three years Professor Beckett has also been on the judging panel for the Templer Medal of the Society for Army Historical Research, which offers annual prizes to the best book and best first book published on British military history.