Special Recognition | Medal Winners | Summaries & Reviews

No special recognition awards were given during this season

Nonfiction

• HISTORY

  • Stay the Rising Sun — Phil Keith —BRONZE

  • Forgotten Heroes of World War II — Tom Simmons — GOLD

• BIOGRAPHY

  • Never Fear — Robert D’Angelo — BRONZE

  • Harnessing the Sky — Frederick Trapnell, Jr and Dana Trapnell Tibbits — SILVER

  • Sgt. Reckless — Robin Hutton — GOLD

• MEMOIR

  • Clicking Mics — Bruce Hoffman — BRONZE

  • Dustoff 7-3 — Erik Sabiston — BRONZE

  • Dagger Four is OK — Bill Norris — BRONZE

  • Testimony of the Protected — Douglas Millikin — BRONZE

  • Vietnam Nurse — Louie Eisenbrandt — SILVER

  • Battle Rattle — Roger Boas — SILVER

  • 15 Years of War — Kristine Schellhaas — SILVER

  • Where Youth and Laughter Go — Seth Folsom — GOLD

• CREATIVE NONFICTION

  • Gravity — Beth Underwood — SILVER

  • Before the Belle — Cassius Mullen — GOLD

• ANTHOLOGY

  • Currents 2015 — Jim Tritten — SILVER

• REFERENCE

  • Mataluna — Edward Zellem — SILVER

  • Warriors Remembered — Albert Nahas — GOLD

Poetry

• Kinyamaswa — Andreas Morgner — SILVER

• The Dark Side of Heaven — Jeanette Vaughan — SILVER

• Near Death/Near Life — Dennis Maulsby — GOLD

• Welcome to FOB Haiku — Randy Brown — GOLD

Fiction

• LITERARY FICTION

  • I’d Walk with My Friends — Jesse Goolsby — BRONZE

  • Her Own Vietnam — Lynn Kanter — SILVER

  • Hookup: A Novel of Fort Bragg — William P. Singley — SILVER

  • Sheppard of the Argonne — G. William Weatherly — GOLD

  • Hover — Anne Wilson — GOLD

• HISTORICAL FICTION

  • The Liberators — Jerri McCloud — BRONZE

  • One Stick and a Waco — J. M. Taylor — SILVER

  • The Quest of the Sultana — John Rothdiener — SILVER

  • The Court-Martial of Benedict Arnold — Richard McMahon — GOLD

  • Enemies — Richard Barnes — GOLD

  • Black Sun — Glenn Starkey — GOLD

  • Damned Yankee — Carolyn Schriber — GOLD

• MYSTERY/THRILLER

  • Cards in the Deck — Robert Stanek — SILVER

  • Chita Quest — Brinn Colenda — SILVER

  • Terror Cell — Joseph Badal — SILVER

  • Veil of Deception — Michael Lewis — SILVER

  • Beijing Red — Jeffrey Wilson — GOLD

  • Death Ship — Joseph Badal — GOLD

  • The Fifth Bomb — Kenneth Andrus — GOLD

• ROMANCE

  • Never Forget — Heather Ashby — SILVER

  • Meant To Be — Jessica James — GOLD

Children & Young Adult

• PICTURE BOOK

  • Veteran Heroes in Our Neighborhood —Valerie Pfundstein —SILVER

  • Mark’s Special Mission —Gregory Keeney —SILVER

• CHAPTER BOOK

  • The Lost Celt —A. E. Conran —GOLD

• YOUNG ADULT

  • Eugene Bullard —Larry Greenly —SILVER

  • Hello Wigwam —L. John Lawrence —GOLD

Note: The 2016 Season includes several books initially submitted during 2015, but which were not reviewed in time for that year's awards announcement.

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