Past Colby Award Winners

2022, Wesley Morgan, The Hardest Place: The American Military Adrift in Afghanistan’s Pech Valley (Random House)
2021, Mark Treanor, A Quiet Cadence (Naval Institute Press)
2020, Adam Higginbotham, Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster (Simon & Schuster)
2019, Paul Scharre, Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War (W. W. Norton & Company)
2018, Steven E. Sodergren, The Army of the Potomac in the Overland and Petersburg Campaigns: Union Soldiers and Trench Warfare, 1864-1865 (LSU Press)
2017, David Barron, Waging War: The Clash Between Presidents and Congress, 1776 to ISIS (Simon and Schuster)
2016, Nisid Hajari, Midnight’s Furies: The Deadly Legacy of India’s Partition (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
2015, COL Douglas Mastriano, Alvin York: A New Biography of the Hero of the Argonne (The University Press of Kentucky)
2014, Logan Beirne, Blood of Tyrants: George Washington and the Forging of the Presidency (Encounter Books)
2013, Thomas P. McKenna, Kontum: The Battle to Save South Vietnam (The University Press of Kentucky)
2012, Michael Franzak, A Nightmare’s Prayer (Threshold Editions)
2011, Karl Marlantes, Matterhorn (Atlantic Monthly Press)
2010, Colonel Jack Jacobs (Ret.) and Douglas Century, If Not Now, When? (Berkley Caliber 2008)
2009, Dexter Filkins, The Forever War (Knopf 2008)
2009, Marcus Luttrell, Lone Survivor (Little, Brown and Company, 2007)
2008, R. Alan King, Twice Armed: An American Soldier’s Battle for Hearts and Minds in Iraq (Zenith Press 2006)
2007, Ian W. Toll, Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U.S. Navy (W.W. Norton & Company 2006)
2007, John A Glusman, Conduct Under Fire: Four American Doctors and Their Fight for Life as Prisoners of the Japanese 1941-1945 (Viking 2005)
2006, Kevin J. Weddle, Lincoln’s Tragic Admiral: The Life of Samuel Francis Du Pont (University of Virginia Press 2005);
2006, Nathaniel Fick, One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer (Houghton-Mifflin 2005)
2005, Jon Meacham, Franklin and Winston: An Epic Story of an Intimate Friendship (Random House)
2005, MG Sid Shachnow, USA (Ret.) and Jann Robbins, Hope and Honor (Forge Books)
2004, Bing West and Major General Ray L. Smith, USMC (Ret.), The March Up (Bantam)
2004, Robert L. Bateman, No Gun Ri (Stackpole)
2003, Bryan Mark Rigg, Hitler’s Jewish Soldiers (University Press of Kansas)
2002, Patrick K. O’Donnell, Beyond Valor (The Free Press)
2002, Ralph Wetterhahn, The Last Battle (Avalon Publishing)
2001, James Bradley with Ron Powers, Flags of Our Fathers (Bantam)
2000, B.G. Burkett and Glenna Whitley, Stolen Valor (Verity Press)
1999, Fred Chiaventone, A Road We Do Not Know (Simon & Schuster)
1999, Bill Harlow, Circle William (Scribner)

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