Special Recognition | Medal Winners| Summaries & Reviews

• Best Military Novel of the Year – Nobody Comes Back by Donn Pearce
• Admiral Nimitz Award – For Outstanding Naval Fiction - Torpedo – A Surface Warfare Thriller by Jeff Edwards
• MWSA Reader’s Choice Award – Saving Babylon by Paul Holton  
• Children’s Book of the Year Award – Daddy You’re My Hero by Michelle Ferguson-Cohen
• MWSA Humanitarian Award – Saving Babylon by Paul Holton  
• The Spirit of Freedom Award – Heart of a Hawk, Eye of the Eagle by Deborah Tainsh
• Music CD of the Year – It is the Soldier by Susan D. Wisemen
• MWSA Award for Excellence in Military Poetry – Heroes Carved in Stone by Sabrina Stidham
• Distinguished Book Award for Children’s Literature – The Four Little Children: A Likely Story by Larry Michalove

Gold Medal Awards

• Military Non-Fiction – vacant
• Military Fiction – First Traitor by Jeff Wade
• Non-Fiction – A Year of Absence by Jessica Redmond
• Best Military Memoir –One Bullet Away – The Making of a Marine Officer by Nathaniel Fick
• Reference and Guide Books – Surviving Deployment by Karen M. Pavlicin
• Poetry – Poems in the Keys of Life: Reflections of a Combat Medic by Kerry Doc Pardue
• Military History – Chopper by Robert F. Dorr
• Short Stories –  Don’t Mean Nothing by Susan O’Neill

Silver Medal Awards

• Military Non-Fiction – Left for Dead by Jon Hovde & Maureen Anderson
• Military Fiction – The Vietnam Worm by James E. Johnson, III
• Non-Fiction – A Thousand Tears Falling by Yung Krall
• Reference and Guide Books – Simple Survival: A Family Outdoors Guide by Gary L. Benton
• Poetry – Remembering Willie, and all the others by Dennis Maulsby
• Religious Literature – A Muslim, the Quran and Jesus the Son of Mary – A Palestinians Journey from the Crescent to the Cross by Akef Tayem

Distinguished Honor Awards

(*Changed to the Bronze Medal)

• Women At Risk – We Also Served by Noonie Fortin
• Fire From The Sky by Ron Greer and Mike Wicks
• The Ghosts of Vietnam by Jim Stewart
• Thunder in the Night – A Sailor’s Perceptive on Vietnam by Raymond S. Kopp
•  A Long Hard Ride by Richard R. Simmons
• Full Circle - Escape From Baghdad and the Return by Saul Silas Fathi
• China With Love - Letters from An American GI in World War II China and India by Lou Glist
• CID – Army Detectives in Peace and War by Hubert Herb Marlow
• Bacalao by J. T. McDaniel
• Code of Conduct by Karen Black
• Sniper Shot by Barry Ozeroff