2005 MWSA Awards

2005 MWSA Awards

Special Recognition Awards:

Best Military Novel of the Year – Nobody Comes Back – Donn Pearce

Admiral Nimitz Award – For Outstanding Naval Fiction - Torpedo – A Surface Warfare Thriller – Jeff Edwards

MWSA Reader’s Choice Award – Saving Babylon – Paul Holton  

Children’s Book of the Year Award – Daddy You’re My Hero – Michelle Ferguson-Cohen

MWSA Humanitarian Award – Saving Babylon – Paul Holton  

The Spirit of Freedom Award – Heart of a Hawk, Eye of the Eagle – Deborah Tainsh

Music CD of the Year – It is the Soldier – Susan D. Wisemen

MWSA Award for Excellence in Military Poetry – Heroes Carved in Stone – Sabrina Stidham

Distinguished Book Award for Children’s Literature – The Four Little Children – A Likely Story – Larry Michalove

Gold Medal Awards

Military Non-Fiction – vacant

Military Fiction – First Traitor – Jeff Wade

Non-Fiction – A Year of Absence – Jessica Redmond

Best Military Memoir –One Bullet Away – The Making of a Marine Officer – Nathaniel Fick

Reference and Guide Books – Surviving Deployment – Karen M. Pavlicin

Poetry – Poems in the Keys of Life: Reflections of a Combat Medic – Kerry Doc Pardue

Military History – Chopper – Robert F. Dorr

Short Stories –  Don’t Mean Nothing – Susan O’Neill

Silver Medal Awards

Military Non-Fiction – Left for Dead – Jon Hovde & Maureen Anderson

Military Fiction – The Vietnam Worm – James E. Johnson, III

Non-Fiction – A Thousand Tears Falling – Yung Krall

Reference and Guide Books – Simple Survival: A Family Outdoors Guide – Gary L. Benton

Poetry – Remembering Willie, and all the others – Dennis Maulsby

Religious Literature – A Muslim, the Quran and Jesus the Son of Mary – A Palestinians Journey from the Crescent to the Cross – Akef Tayem

Distinguished Honor Awards (*Changed to the Bronze Medal)

Women At Risk – We Also Served - Noonie Fortin

Fire From The Sky – Ron Greer and Mike Wicks

The Ghosts of Vietnam – Jim Stewart

Thunder in the Night – A Sailor’s Perceptive on Vietnam – Raymond S. Kopp

 A Long Hard Ride – Richard R. Simmons

Full Circle - Escape From Baghdad and the Return – Saul Silas Fathi

China With Love - Letters from An American GI in World War II China and India Lou Glist

CID – Army Detectives in Peace and War – Hubert Herb Marlow

Bacalao – J. T. McDaniel

Code of Conduct – Karen Black

Sniper Shot – Barry Ozeroff