Biography of samuel eliot morison award

1982-established accolade for works related to the United States Navy

For other similarly named awards, see Samuel Eliot Morison Award (disambiguation).

The Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature is for literature about the United States Navy.

The award was planned in 1982 and first issued the next year by the New York Commandery of the Naval Order of the United States, who administers and chooses the winner which is a significant book on naval history from the prior year.^[1]

The prize is named for Rear Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison, a military historian.^[2]

Awardees

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Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature

• 1983 Samuel Eliot Morison, honorary on launch of new award ^{[1][clarification needed]}
• 1984 Victor H.

  Krulak, First to Fight: An Inside View of the U.S. Marine Corps

• 1987 Ivan Musicant, Battleship at War: The Epic Story of