2009 Branson Stars & Flags

Book Award Winners

About the award categories.

This being our first year for the awards, we were pleased to have so many very fine books to choose from. Because our scores for many of the categories were so close, it was determined that we would devide some of the categories and add new ones. Fiction was divided into Thriiler/Adventure and Historical Fiction. Historical Fiction was then separated by timeframe, eg. Civil War, WWII, etc. We also added the new category of Reference/Technical Writing.

The Winners were awarded as follows:

Overall Grand Prize Winner
            Sacred Ground       [Ruck]
Fiction – Thriller/Adventure
            1.  Delta 7                 [Cathcart]
            2.  Voices Under Berlin     [Hill]
Historical Fiction (Only 1st place winner in each sub-category)
      Civil War:     True Colors              [Rainwater]
     WWII:          The Blackened Canteen    [Yellin]
     Vietnam:      Firefight on Vietnam Brown Water      [Salsi]
     Desert Wars:          No Time for Ribbons         [Trebilcock]
Non-Fiction

  1. The Lady Gangster       [Staecker]
  2. (Tie) Stand To [Evans] and By Dammit, We’re Marines   [Chatfield]
  3. The Ether Zone [Morris]

Inspirational
1.   Battlefields and Blessings      [Spivey]
2.   Heart of a Hawk          [Tainsh]
3.   The Immeasurable Spirit       [Lucas]
Photography
1.   Sacred Ground             [Ruck]
2.   Come In, Swanee Leader                  [Staley]
3.   USAF Prototype Jet Fighters                        [Jenkins/Landis] 
Poetry
1.   Worth Remmebering: The Poetry of Our Heritage  [Thompson]
2.   Remembering Willie   [Maulsby]
Audio/Visual
1.   Way Back Home   (original song)     [Senour]
2.   Korea: We Called It War  (video)    [Batson]
Reference/Technical
1.   First Command Paths to Leadership          [Zimmerman]
2.   Northrop’s Night Hunger      [Kollin]
3.   X-Plane Crashes           [Merlin/Moore]

    Congratulations to the winners. If you haven’t been notified personally, let us know (patavery@gmail.com, nancysentertainment@yahoo.com, or 417-338-4891) if you plan to attend Veterans Week in Branson (Nov. 5-11) where you will be receiving your awards. We also need to know your tee shirt size.