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They Marched into Sunlight: War and Peace, Vietnam and America, October 1967 is a 2004 book written by David Maraniss. The book centers around the Battle of Ong Thanh and a protest at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. It was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for History in 2004 [1] and won the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize that same year.
The army general and respected military writer Mikhail Dragomirov, in an article published in Oruzheiny Sbornik (The Military Almanac, 1868–70), while disputing some of Tolstoy's ideas concerning the "spontaneity" of wars and the role of commander in battles, advised all the Russian Army officers to use War and Peace as their desk book ...
The award is an offshoot of the Dayton Peace Prize, which grew out of the 1995 peace accords ending the Bosnian War. [2] In 2011, the former "Lifetime Achievement Award" was renamed the Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award with a $10,000 honorarium.
National Book Award for Translated Literature – awarded annually for a fiction or non-fiction translation from any language into English by the National Book Award National Translation Award – annual prize awarded by the American Literary Translators Association [ 2 ]
The National Book Foundation awards winners in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translated literature and young people’s literature. This year, publishers submitted a total of 1,917 books.
American Peace Award: First created in 1923 by Edward Bok; revived in 2008 United States: Women Building Peace Award: United States Institute of Peace: Created in 2019 [1] United States: Art of Peace Award: President's Peace Commission: To an artist with a reputation for quality work, known as a person who attempts to further the cause of peace ...
There was little mention of politics at Sunday’s Oscars, but there were calls for peace, like from the filmmakers behind “Zone of Interest” and “20 Days in Mariupol.”
General fiction for adult readers is a National Book Award category that has been continuous since 1950, with multiple awards for a few years beginning 1980. From 1935 to 1941, there were six annual awards for novels or general fiction and the "Bookseller Discovery", the "Most Original Book"; both awards were sometimes given to a novel.