| Year
|
Author
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Title
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| 1957
|
David Schoenbrun
|
As France Goes
|
| 1958
|
John Gunther
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Inside Russia Today
|
| 1959
|
Cornelius Ryan
|
The Longest Day
|
| 1960
|
William L. Shirer
|
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
|
| 1961
|
John Toland
|
But Not in Shame: The Six Months After Pearl Harbor
|
| 1962
|
Seymour Freidin
|
The Forgotten People: An Eye Witness Account of the People in the Iron Curtain Countries of Europe from 1945-1961
|
| 1963
|
Dan Kurzman
|
Subversion of the Innocents: Patterns of Communist Penetration in Africa, the Middle East, and Asia
|
| 1964
|
Robert Trumbull
|
The Scrutable East: A Correspondent's Report on Southeast Asia
|
| 1965
|
Robert Shaplen
|
The Lost Revolution: The U.S. in Vietnam, 1946–1966
|
| 1966
|
Welles Hangen
|
The Muted Revolution: East Germany's Challenge to Russia and the West
|
| 1967
|
George F. Kennan
|
Memoirs, 1925–1950
|
| 1968
|
George W. Ball
|
The Discipline of Power: Essentials of a Modern World Structure
|
| 1969
|
Townsend Hoopes
|
The Limits of Intervention: An Inside Account of How the Johnson Policy of Escalation in Vietnam was Reversed
|
| 1970
|
John Toland
|
The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936–1945
|
| 1971
|
Anthony Austin
|
The President's War: The Story of the Tonkin Gulf Resolution and How the Nation was Trapped in Vietnam
|
| 1972
|
David Halberstam
|
The Best and the Brightest
|
| 1973
|
C.L. Sulzberger
|
An Age of Mediocrity: Memoirs and Diaries, 1963–1972
|
| 1974
|
Cornelius Ryan
|
A Bridge Too Far
|
| 1975
|
Phillip Knightley
|
The First Casualty: The War Correspondent as Hero, Propagandist, and Myth Maker from the Crimea to Vietnam
|
| 1976
|
John Toland
|
Adolf Hitler
|
| 1977
|
David McCullough
|
The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870–1914
|
| 1978
|
Tad Szulc
|
The Illusion of Peace: Foreign Policy in the Nixon Years
|
| 1979
|
Peter Wyden
|
Bay of Pigs: The Untold Story
|
| 1980
|
Dan Kurzman
|
Miracle of November: Madrid's Epic Stand, 1936
|
| 1981
|
Pierre Salinger
|
America Held Hostage: The Secret Negotiations
|
| 1982
|
Fox Butterfield
|
China: Alive in the Bitter Sea
|
| 1983
|
David Shipler
|
Russia: Broken Idols, Solemn Dreams
|
| 1984
|
Kevin Klose
|
Russia and the Russians: Inside the Closed Society
|
| 1985
|
Joseph Lelyveld
|
Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and White
|
| 1986
|
Tad Szulc
|
Fidel: A Critical Portrait
|
| 1987
|
Raymond Bonner
|
Waltzing with a Dictator: The Marcoses and the Making of American Policy
|
| 1988
|
Whitman Bassow
|
The Moscow Correspondents: Reporting on Russia from the Revolution to Glasnost
|
| 1989
|
Thomas Friedman
|
From Beirut to Jerusalem
|
| 1990
|
Tad Szulc
|
Then and Now: How the World Has Changed Since World War II
|
| 1991
|
Sam Dillon
|
Comandos: The CIA and Nicaragua's Contra Rebels
|
| 1992
|
Misha Glenny
|
The Fall of Yugoslavia: The Third Balkan War
|
| 1993
|
Mary Anne Weaver
|
Pakistan: In the Shadow of Jihad and Afghanistan
|
| 1994
|
Michael Ignatieff
|
Blood and Belonging: Journeys into the New Nationalism
|
| 1995
|
Roger Warner
|
Back Fire: The CIA's Secret War in Laos and It's Link to the War in Vietnam
|
| 1996
|
Peter Maas
|
Love Thy Neighbor: A Story of War
|
| 1997
|
Patrick Smith
|
Japan: A Reinterpretation
|
| 1998
|
Philip Gourevitch
|
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda
|
| 1999
|
Thomas L. Friedman
|
The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization
|
| 2000
|
A. J. Langguth
|
Our Vietnam: The War 1954–1975
|
| 2001
|
Mark Bowden
|
Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World's Greatest Outlaw
|
| 2002
|
John Laurence
|
The Cat from Hué: A Vietnam War Story
|
| 2003
|
Milt Bearden,
James Risen
|
The Main Enemy: The Inside Story of the CIA's Final Showdown with the KGB
|
| 2004
|
Steve Coll
|
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001
|
| 2005
|
George Packer
|
The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq
|
| 2006
|
Rajiv Chandrasekaran
|
Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone
|
| 2007
|
Bob Drogin
|
Curveball: Spies, Lies, and the Con Man Who Caused a War
|
| 2008
|
Dexter Filkins
|
The Forever War
|
| 2009
|
David Finkel
|
The Good Soldiers
|
| 2010
|
Oliver Bullough
|
Let Our Fame be Great: Journeys among the Defiant People of the Caucasus
|
| 2011
|
Robin Wright
|
Rock the Casbah: Rage and Rebellion Across the Islamic World
|
| 2012
|
Peter Bergen
|
Manhunt: The Ten-Year Search for Bin Laden From 9/11 to Abbottabad
|
| 2013
|
Jonathan M. Katz
|
The Big Truck That Went By: How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster
|
| 2014
|
Evan Osnos
|
Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China
|
| 2015
|
Tom Burgis
|
The Looting Machine: Warlords, Oligarchs, Corporations, Smugglers, and the Theft of Africa's Wealth
|
| 2016
|
Arkady Ostrovsky
|
The Invention of Russia: From Gorbachev’s Freedom to Putin’s War
|
| 2017
|
Suzy Hansen
|
Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World
|
| 2018
|
Rania Abouzeid
|
No Turning Back: Life, Loss and Hope in Wartime Syria
|
| 2019
|
Katherine Eban
|
Bottle of Lies: Inside the Generic Drug Boom
|
| 2020
|
Declan Walsh
|
The Nine Lives of Pakistan: Dispatches from a Precarious State
|
| 2021
|
Joe Parkinson,
Drew Hinshaw
|
Bring Back Our Girls: The Untold Story of the Global Search for Nigeria’s Missing Schoolgirls
|
| 2022
|
William Neuman
|
Things Are Never So Bad That They Can't Get Worse: Inside the Collapse of Venezuela
|
| 2023
|
Paul Caruana Galizia
|
A Death in Malta: An Assassination and a Family's Quest for Justice
|