W. Y. Boyd Award

The W. Y. Boyd Award is an annual award consisting of $5,000 and a 24k gold-framed citation of achievement honoring the best fiction set in a period when the United States was at war. It recognizes the service of American veterans and military personnel and encourages the writing and publishing of outstanding war-related fiction.

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2004
Glory in the Name: A Novel of the Confederate Navy by James L. Nelson (HarperCollins Publishers)

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2003
Warning of War by James Brady (St. Martin's Press)

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2002
Sharkman Six by Owen West (Simon & Schuster)

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2001
Dog Company Six by Brigadier General Edwin Howard Simmons (Naval Institute Press)

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2000
Soldier in Paradise by John Mort (Southern Methodist University Press)

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1999
Jacob's Ladder A Story of Virginia During the War by Donald McCaig (W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.)

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1998
The Black Flower: A Novel of the Civil War by Howard Bahr (Nautical and Aviation Press)

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1997
Gods and Generals by Jeff Shaara (Ballantine Books)

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