Cornelius Ryan Award

Given by Overseas Press Club

64 Works 39,751 Books 646 Reviews 4.1
Awarded by the Overseas Press Club to the "best nonfiction book on international affairs".
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WorkYear
The Nine Lives of Pakistan: Dispatches from a Precarious State by Declan Walsh
2020
Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom by Katherine Eban
2019
No Turning Back: Life, Loss, and Hope in Wartime Syria by Rania Abouzeid
2018
Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World by Suzy Hansen
2017
The Invention of Russia: The Rise of Putin and the Age of Fake News by Arkady Ostrovsky
2016
The Looting Machine: Warlords, Oligarchs, Corporations, Smugglers, and the Theft of Africa's Wealth by Tom Burgis
2015
Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China by Evan Osnos
2014
The Big Truck That Went By: How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster by Jonathan M. Katz
2013
Manhunt: The Ten Year Search for Ben Laden From 9/11 to Abbottabad by Peter L. Bergen
2012
Rock the Casbah: Rage and Rebellion Across the Islamic World by Robin B. Wright
2011
Let Our Fame Be Great: Journeys Among the Defiant People of the Caucasus by Oliver Bullough
2010
The Good Soldiers by David Finkel
2009
The Forever War by Dexter Filkins
2008
Curveball: Spies, Lies, and the Con Man Who Caused a War by Bob Drogin
2007
Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone by Rajiv Chandrasekaran
2006
The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq by George Packer
2005
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 by Steve Coll
2004
The Main Enemy: The Inside Story of the CIA's Final Showdown with the KGB by Milton Bearden
2003
The Cat from Hue: A Vietnam War Story by John Laurence
2002
Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World's Greatest Outlaw by Mark Bowden
2001
Our Vietnam: The War 1954-1975 by A. J. Langguth
2000
The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization by Thomas L. Friedman
1999
We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families: Stories from Rwanda by Philip Gourevitch
1998
Japan: A Reinterpretation by Patrick Smith
1997
Love Thy Neighbor: A Story of War by Peter Maass
1996
Shooting at the Moon: The Story of America's Clandestine War in Laos by Roger Warner
1995
Blood and Belonging: Journeys into the New Nationalism by Michael Ignatieff
1994
Pakistan: In the Shadow of Jihad and Afghanistan by Mary Anne Weaver
1993
The Fall of Yugoslavia: The Third Balkan War by Misha Glenny
1992
Comandos: The CIA and Nicaragua's Contra Rebels by Sam Dillon
1991
Then and Now: How the World Has Changed Since WWII by Tad Szulc
1990
From Beirut to Jerusalem by Thomas L. Friedman
1989
The Moscow Correspondents: Reporting on Russia from the Revolution to Glasnost by Whitman Bassow
1988
Waltzing With A Dictator: The Marcoses and the Making of American Policy by Raymond Bonner
1987
Fidel: A Critical Portrait by Tad Szulc
1986
Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and White by Joseph Lelyveld
1985
Russia and the Russians: Inside the Closed Society by Kevin Klose
1984
Russia: Broken Idols, Solemn Dreams by David K. Shipler
1983
China: Alive in the Bitter Sea by Fox Butterfield
1982
America held hostage: The secret negotiations by Pierre Salinger
1981
Miracle of November : Madrid's epic stand, 1936 by Dan Kurzman
1980
Bay of Pigs: The Untold Story by Peter Wyden
1979
The illusion of peace : foreign policy in the Nixon years by Tad Szulc
1978
The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914 by David McCullough
1977
Adolf Hitler by John Toland
1976
The first casualty: From the Crimea to Vietnam : the war correspondent as hero, propagandist, and myth maker by Phillip Knightley
1975
A Bridge Too Far by Cornelius Ryan
1974
An age of mediocrity; memoirs and diaries, 1963-1972 by C. L. Sulzberger
1973
The Best and the Brightest by David Halberstam
1972
The President's war; the story of the Tonkin Gulf resolution and how the nation was trapped in Vietnam by Anthony Austin
1971
The Rising Sun: the Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945. by John Toland
1970
The Rising Sun: the Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945. Volume 2 by John Toland
1970
The Limits of Intervention: An Inside Account of How the Johnson Policy of Escalation in Vietnam Was Reversed by Townsend Hoopes
1969
The discipline of power; essentials of a modern world structure by George W. Ball
1968
Memoirs 1925-1950 by George F. Kennan
1967
The muted revolution;: East Germany's challenge to Russia and the West by Welles Hangen
1966
The Lost Revolution: The U.S. in Vietnam, 1946-1966 by Robert Shaplen
1965
The Scrutable East, A Correspondent's Report on Southeast Asia by Robert Trumbull
1964
Subversion of the innocents; patterns of communist penetration in Africa, the Middle East, and Asia by Dan Kurzman
1963
The Forgotten People: Europe behind the Iron Curtain, 1945-1961 by Seymour Freidin
1962
But Not in Shame: The Six Months After Pearl Harbor by John Toland
1961
The Longest Day by Cornelius Ryan
1959
Inside Russia Today by John Gunther
1958
As France Goes by David Schoenbrun
1957

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