 In 2007, Lavery released "Churchill Goes to War", which was, according to the "Mail on Sunday", "a well-researched and at times deeply inspiring book".In November of the same year, Lady Mountbatten presented Lavery with the Desmond Wettern Maritime Media Award at a ceremony aboard the MV "Silver Sturgeon".According to the Maritime Foundation, the award "was made to Mr Lavery as an author, broadcaster, and adviser on major feature films, which have contributed to our understanding of the social structure of Britain's maritime power and all maritime aspects of British national life."