Military
Book Club's "Featured Selection" for
December 2007 (for The Depths
of Courage).
Military
Book Club's “Main Selection;” nominated for
MBC's Book of the Year Award (for The
Rock of Anzio, February 1998).
Recipient
of the “2001 Distinguished Article Award” from
the Army Historical Foundation for “The Liberation
of Dachau,” which appeared in the March 2000 issue
of World War II magazine.
Finalist, 2006 Colorado Book Awards (sponsored by
Colorado Endowment for the Humanities) for Given
Up For Dead.
Given Up For Dead selected for the "community reading" by the Tulsa (OK) City-County Library System and the Tulsa Council for Holocaust Education - 2008.
2010 Gold Medal for Literary Fiction awarded by the Military Writers Society of America for Internal Conflicts.
Finalist, 2010 Colorado Book Awards (sponsored by Colorado Endowment for the Humanities) for Turbulence Before Takeoff.
First Place, 2011 "Stars and Flags" book awards in the Non-Fiction/Subject Specific category (for The Depths of Courage).
Tied for First Place, 2011 "Stars and Flags" book awards in the Non-Fiction/Biography category (for The Beasts of Buchenwald).
Second Place, 2011 "Stars and Flags" "Stars and Flag" book awards in the Non-Fiction/Subject Specific category (for If Chaos Reigns).
Honorable Mention, 2011 "Stars and Flags" "Stars and Flag" book awards in the Fiction category (for Internal Conflicts).