Awards in your library

Summary: 29 Awards.

ALA Best Books for Young Adults

• The last battle by Cornelius Ryan (1966)

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

• War Letters: Extraordinary Correspondence from American Wars by Andrew Carroll (History, 2004)

Alan Paton Award

• The Scramble for Africa: White Man's Conquest of the Dark Continent from 1876 to 1912 by Thomas Pakenham (1992)

Audie Award

• Tree of Smoke: A Novel by Denis Johnson (Literary Fiction, 2008)

CounterPunch's Top 100 [and a few more] Non-fiction Works of the 20th Century

• The Crime and Punishment of I.G. Farben by Joseph borkin

Duff Cooper Prize

• Albert Speer: His Battle With Truth by Gitta Sereny (1995)

Edgar Award Nominee

• The House on Garibaldi Street by Isser Harel (Fact Crime, 1976)

General Wallace M. Greene Jr. Award

• One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer by Nathaniel C. Fick (2006)

George Louis Beer Prize

• A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II by Gerhard L. Weinberg (1994)

Herbert Hoover Book Award

• A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II by Gerhard L. Weinberg (1994)

James Tait Black Memorial Prize

• Albert Speer: His Battle With Truth by Gitta Sereny (Biography, 1995)

John Burroughs Medal

• Song of the Sky by Guy Murchie (1956)

Lionel Gelber Prize

• Aftermath: The Remnants of War: From Landmines to Chemical Warfare--The Devastating Effects of Modern Combat by Donovan Webster (1997)

The Morning News Tournament of Books

• Tree of Smoke: A Novel by Denis Johnson (Semifinalist, 2008)

National Book Award

• Tree of Smoke: A Novel by Denis Johnson (Fiction, 2007)

National Book Critics Circle Award

• The Rape Of Europa: The Fate of Europe's Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War by Lynn H. Nicholas (General Nonfiction, 1994)

National Book Critics Circle Award finalist

• The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post-9/11 America by Susan Faludi (Criticism, 2007)

New York Times Best Books of the Year

• Tree of Smoke: A Novel by Denis Johnson (2007)

New York Times bestseller

• A Walk in the Sun by Harry Brown (Fiction, 1944)
• Guard of Honor by James Gould Cozzens (Fiction, 1949)
• No time for sergeants by Mac Hyman (Fiction, 1954)
• Silver Wings, Santiago Blue by Janet Dailey (Fiction, 1984)
• Tree of Smoke: A Novel by Denis Johnson (Fiction, 2007)
• Brave Men by Ernie Pyle (General, 1944)
• Up Front by Bill Mauldin (General, 1945)
• War as I Knew It by General George S. Patton Jr. (General, 1947)
• The man who never was by Ewen Montagu (General, 1954)
• Song of the Sky by Guy Murchie (General, 1955)
• Patton: Ordeal and Triumph (Dell Books # 6853) by Ladislas Farago (General, 1964)
• IS PARIS BURNING? by LARRY COLLINS (General, 1965)
• The last battle by Cornelius Ryan (General, 1966)
• A Bridge Too Far by Cornelius Ryan (General, 1974)
• Spandau The Secret Diaries by Albert Speer (General, 1976)
• ADOLF HITLER VOLUME II & VOLUME I by TOLAND JOHN (General, 1976)
• Wanted!: The Search for Nazis in America by Howard Blum (General, 1977)
• War Letters: Extraordinary Correspondence from American Wars by Andrew Carroll (Nonfiction, 2001)
• IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation by Edwin Black (Nonfiction, 2001)

New York Times Notable Book of the Year

• Tree of Smoke: A Novel by Denis Johnson (Fiction & Poetry, 2007)

Pulitzer Prize

• Guard of Honor by James Gould Cozzens (Fiction, 1949)

Pulitzer Prize finalist

• Tree of Smoke: A Novel by Denis Johnson (Fiction, 2008)

Salon Book Award

• Tree of Smoke: A Novel by Denis Johnson (2007)

Society of Military History - Distinguished Book Award

• A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II by Gerhard L. Weinberg (1995)

Time Magazine's Best Books of the Year

• CITIZEN SOLDIERS : The U.S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany -- June 7, 1944-May 7, 1945 by Stephen E. Ambrose (Non-fiction (5), 1997)
• Tree of Smoke: A Novel by Denis Johnson (Fiction (5), 2007)

WH Smith Literary Award

• The Scramble for Africa: White Man's Conquest of the Dark Continent from 1876 to 1912 by Thomas Pakenham (1992)

Whitbread

• Bismarck by Edward Crankshaw (Biography, 1982)

Whitbread Shortlist

• Albert Speer: His Battle With Truth by Gitta Sereny (Biography, 1995)

William E. Colby Award

• Hitler's Jewish Soldiers: The Untold Story Of Nazi Racial Laws And Men Of Jewish Descent In The German Military (Modern War Studies) by Bryan Mark Rigg (2003)
• One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer by Nathaniel C. Fick (2006)