ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - s4story -- The Military Writers Society of America (MWSA) recently announced its awards finalists for 2019. The actual awards (Gold, Silver, or Bronze) will be announced at MWSA's General Membership Conference on September 14, 2019, in Albuquerque, NM.

Click here for details on each award-winning book.

Subcategory	Title	Author
Children & Young Adult—Picture Book	Captain Mama's Surprise / La Sorpresa de Capitán Mamá	Graciela Tiscareño-Sato
	Daddy Left with Mr. Army: A Child's View of Military Deployment	Chandelle Walker
Children's Chapter Book	Kato's Grand Adventure	Jasmine and Jim Tritten
Historical Fiction	A Distant Field: A Novel of World War I	RJ MacDonald
	Chains Of Nobility	Brad Graft
	Delta Sierra	Larry Fry
	Hope in The Shadows of War	Thomas Paul Reilly
	Occupied	Kurt Blorstad
	The Batter's Box	Andy Kutler
	Vietnam's Valleys of Darkness	H. J. Thomas
History	Edison 64	Richard Sand
	I Grew Up In War Housing. . . The History Of The Defense Housing Projects In East Alton, Illinois 1941-1954	Phillip Walkington
	Space Pioneers: In Their Own Words	Loretta Hall
	The History of Human Space Flight	Theodore Spitzmiller
	War Animals: The Unsung Heroes of World War II	Robin Hutton
	Winged Brothers	Ernest Snowden
Literary Fiction	Across the Inlet	Gail Summers
	Descent: The Forty Days After the Crucifixion of Jesus	D.S. Lliteras
	Job 2.0	Del Staecker
	Living Waters	Ed Waldrop
	To Any Soldier: A Novel of Vietnam Letters	Kathryn Watson Quigg and G.C. Hendricks
Memoir/Biography	Baghdaddy: How Saddam Hussein Taught Me to Be a Better Father	Bill Riley
	Echo in Ramadi - The Firsthand Story of U.S. Marines in Iraq's Deadliest City	Scott Huesing, Foreword by MGen James Livingston, Medal of Honor Recipient
	Interview with a Terrorist	James Rosone and Miranda Watson
	Probe the Ocean, Plow the Sea: A Destroyer Sailor's Vietnam Era Odyssey	Paul Jewell
	The Court-Martial of Corporal Nutting: A Memoir of the Vietnam War	John Nutting
	The Ground You Stand Upon: Life of a Skytrooper in Vietnam	Joshua and Wilbur Bowe
	WESSELHOEFT: Traded to the Enemy	Adolf Wesselhoeft and Shirley Anderson Wesselhoeft
Mystery/Thriller	Borderline	Joseph Badal
	Borderline Decision	Hugh Simpson
	Dark Waters	Chris Goff
	Deliberate Deception	Joe Porrazzo
	Lions of the Sky	Francesco Chierici
	Midnight Blues	Robert Kidera
	Red Sky	Chris Goff
	The Councilman	Glenn Starkey
	The Freedom Broker	K.J. Howe
	The Motive	Joseph Badal
Poetry—Poetry Book	Cowboys and War	Larry Fry
Reference	Military Spouses with Graduate Degrees: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Thriving amidst Uncertainty	Dr. Leandra Hernandez and Jennifer N. Belding (co-editor)
	Seasons Of My Military Student: Practical Ideas for Parents and Teachers	Amanda Trimillos and Stacy Allsbrook-Huisman
Young Adult (fiction or non-fiction)	Invisible Hero: Two Boys and an Exciting Tale of Honor and Valor	R. A. Sheats

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