Special Recognition | Medal Winners | Summaries & Reviews
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• Mike Mullins Memorial Writer of the Year: Joseph Badal

• Founder’s Award: Seven Wings to Glory by Kathleen M. Rodgers

• President’s Award: Betsy Beard

For more details on these awards, please visit our awards description page.

Children's Chapter Book

 Silver Medal

• One Small Spark by Jackie Minniti

Graphic Novel/Comic Book

Gold Medal

• Full Mag: Veteran Stories Illustrated, Vol. 2 by August Uhl et al.

Silver Medal

• Katusha: Girl Soldier of the Great Patriotic War by Wayne Vansant

Historical Fiction

 Gold Medal

• The Birdhouse Man by Rick DeStefanis

•  When Heroes Flew by Buzz Bernard

 Silver Medal

• A Lion's Share by Brad Graft

• Angie's War by Gary DeRigne

• Going Home by Carole Brungar

• The Jøssing Affair by J. L. Oakley

• The Pound: Devil Dogs War in Nicaragua by David Brown

• Vala's Bed by Joyce Faulkner

• Youth In Asia by Allen Tiffany

Bronze Medal

• Cobra Talon by Patrick Sydor

• Micah by Glenn Starkey

• The Hidden Sphinx: A Tale of World War II Egypt by Zita Steele

• The Last Word by Ron Miner

History

Gold Medal

• Winds, Waves, & Warriors: Battling the Surf at Normandy, Tarawa and Inchon by Thomas M. Mitchell

Silver Medal

• All Present and Accounted For by Steven Craig

• Bernard Montgomery's Art of War by Zita Steele

• Student, Sailor, Skipper, Survivor - How WWII Transformed the Lives of Ordinary Americans by Julia Gimbel

• The Brownsville Texas Incident of 1906: The True and Tragic Story of a Black Battalion's Wrongful Disgrace and Ultimate Redemption by Lt Colonel Ret William Baker, Foreword: Dr. Bettye Foster Baker

• Unseen Body Blows by William A. Gay

Bronze Medal

• Frozen Tears: The Fort Leonard Wood MP Murders by J. B. King and Sandra Miller Linhart

How to/Business/Self Help

Gold Medal

• Deliberate Discomfort - How U.S. Special Operations Forces Overcome Fear and Dare to Win by Getting Comfortable Being Uncomfortable by Jason Van Camp with Andy Symonds

Bronze Medal

• Combat To College by John Davis

• The Road to Publishing by Dawn Brotherton

Literary Fiction

Gold Medal

• Alone In The Light by Benjamin W. Bass

Silver Medal

• Seven Wings to Glory by Kathleen M. Rodgers

• Still Come Home by Katey Schultz

• The Big Buddha Bicycle Race by Terence A. Harkin

Bronze Medal

• Navajo Strong by Joyce Phillips

Memoir/Biography

Gold Medal

• All Blood Runs Red by Phil Keith and Tom Clavin

• There it is...It don't mean nothin' by Charles Hensler

• Under Fire with ARVN Infantry by Bob Worthington

Silver Medal

• Crusader: General Donn Starry and the Army of His Times by Mike Guardia

Bronze Medal

• A Blessed Life - One World War II Seabee's Story by Tamra McAnally Bolton

• Mayhem 337: Memoir of a Combat Advisor in Afghanistan by Chad Rickard

• Plans That Made God Laugh by James Allen

• Point: Wilderness War in Vietnam and Cambodia- A Memoir by Jamie Thompson

• Sirens: How to Pee Standing Up - An Alarming Memoir of Combat and Coming Back Home by Laura Colbert

Mystery/Thriller

Gold Medal

• Persian Blood by M.G. Haynes

Silver Medal

• At Daddy's Hands: Courage Knows No Age by Jacob Paul Patchen

• Dark Angel by Joseph Badal

• Obsessed by Joseph Badal

• Rigged - Book One of the Falling Empires Series by James Rosone & Miranda Watson

• The Custer Conspiracy by Dennis Koller

• Trust but Verify by Karna Small Bodman

Bronze Medal

• Bangkok File by Dale A. Dye

• Force No One by Daniel Charles Ross

Pictorial/Coffee Table

Silver Medal

• Vietnam Photographs From North Carolina Veterans - The Memories They Brought Home by Martin Tucker

Picture Book

Gold Medal

• Grandman Dean goes Big Shopping by Warren Martin, and Star Huddleston - Illustrator, Karen Tucker - Editor

• I'll Lend You My Daddy by Becky King

Bronze Medal

• You Are Always With Me: A Poem for Those at Home When a Loved One Deploys by Daniel L. Berry, Illustrator: Brian Azhar

Religious/Spiritual

Bronze Medal

• Off the Hook: How Forgiving You Frees Me by Dana Tibbitts & Patti Goldberg

Young Adult (fiction or non-fiction)

Silver Medal

• I Am Jack and I Am Awesome by Dennis Jones

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Videos

Announcement of Medal Winners

• Announcement of Finalists (Facebook)
  

Press Releases

• Announcement of Finalists—PDF | Online

Promotional Material

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