In 2016, he won the Pritzker Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing. He was appointed as the Lord Lieutenant of Tweeddale on 7 June 2014 by HM Queen Elizabeth II. In July 2017, Strachan was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences. In 2018, Strachan received the Morison Prize from The Society for Military History. Selected publications British Military Uniforms, 1768–1796 (Arms and Armour, 1975) History of the Cambridge University Officers Training Corps (1976) European Armies and the Conduct of War (London, 1983) Wellington's Legacy: The Reform of the British Army 1830–54 (Manchester, 1984) From Waterloo to Balaclava: Tactics, Technology and the British Army (Cambridge, 1985) The Politics of the British Army (Oxford, 1997) The Oxford Illustrated History of the First World War (ed.) (Oxford, 1998) The First World War: Volume 1: To Arms (Oxford, 2001) (first of an expected three volume history) Military Lives Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. The First World War: A New Illustrated History (Simon & Schuster, 2003) The First World War (Viking, 2004) (single volume survey of the war) The First World War in Africa (Oxford, 2004) German Strategy in the First World War in Wolfgang Elz and Sönke Neitzel: Internationale Beziehungen im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert, pp. 127–144 (2003) Clausewitz's On War: a Biography (Atlantic Monthly Press 2007) . with Holger Afflerbach: How Fighting Ends. A History of Surrender. Oxford University Press, Oxford/New York 2012, . The Direction of War: Contemporary Strategy in Historical Perspective 2013. British Generals in Blair's Wars, eds. Jonathan Bailey, Richard Iron and Hew Strachan (Ashgate Publishing, 2013). Prefaces : Flesh and Steel During the Great War: The Transformation of the French Army and the Invention of Modern Warfare, Michel Goya (Pen and Sword Military, 2018) - A Military History of Scotland, eds. Edward M. Spiers, Jeremy Crang, Matthew Strickland ( 2013). Media Channel 4 DVD: The First World War – The Complete Series OCLC: 63265523 (region 1), 883640397 (region 4) ASIN: B0009S2K9C (based on his book) See also The First World War (TV series) References Further reading Boff, Jonathan. "Sir Hew Strachan and the Study of the First World War." War in History 27.4 (2020): 605–616. Herwig, Holger H. "Strachan and the Great War: A Lifelong Quest." War in History 27.4 (2020): 590–604. King, Anthony. "Hew Strachan and the Sociology of War." War in History