Omar recipients

Omars (named after General Omar Bradley) are awards which I personally hand out on an irregular basis, for material of a military nature which expresses the condition of man in wartime.

Omars 2002 (Year 1)

Best military novels:

• Naval

Frigate, John Wingate
Carrier, John Wingate
Submarine, John Wingate

• Land warfare

Red Army, Ralph Peters
Team Yankee, Harry Coyle
Sword Point, Harry Coyle
Bright Star, Harry Coyle
Trial by Fire, Harry Coyle
The Ten Thousand, Harry Coyle
Code of Honor, Harry Coyle

• Air

(None yet)

Best History Book:

• A Soldier's Story, Gen. Omar Bradley
  
• Stalingrad, The Fateful Siege: 1942-1943, Antony Beevor
  
• Marshall Zhukov's Greatest Battles, Georgi Konstantinovich Zhukov (ed. Harrison E. Salisbury)
  

Best Wargame:

• Best Solitaire Wargame

Microtactical: Ambush! (Victory Games) / Up Front (Avalon Hill)

• Best Two-Player Wargame

Tactical: Caesar: Alesia (Avalon Hill)
Operational: Vietnam 1965-1975 (Victory Games)

• Best Overall Wargame

Vietnam 1965-1975 (Victory Games)

• Best Overall Wargame (ported to computer)

Vietnam 1965-1975 (Victory Games) (in Cyberboard)

• Best Computer Wargame

Microtactical: Rainbow Six series (Red Storm, ****)
Tactical: Combat Mission series from Battlefront
Operational: The Operational Art of War series (Talonsoft, ****)
Strategic: (none yet)
Best combination (Tactical/Strategic): Shogun, Total War (Electronic Arts, ****)
Best Single-Player shooter: Half-Life (Sierra, ****)

Best Films:

• La grande illusion (Jean Renoir, 1937)
• Aleksandr Nevski (Sergei Eisenstein, 1938)
• Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa, 1954)
• Cross of Iron (Sam Peckinpah, 1977)
• Enemy at the Gates (Jean-Jacques Annaud, 2001)