| Year |
Author |
Title |
| 1957 |
David Schoenbrun |
As France Goes |
| 1958 |
John Gunther |
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 Assassin's 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 |