Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature

The Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature was established by the New York Commandery of the Naval Order of the United States in 1976.

Awardees

1984 Lieutenant General Victor H. Krulak, First to Fight.
1986 Dr. Alvin Coox, Nomonhan: Japan Against Russia
1989 Hon. John F. Lehman, Command of the Seas.
1993 Admiral Eugene B. Fluckey, Thunder Below!
1999 Captain Edward L. Beach, Jr., Salt and Steel.
2000 Brigadier General Edwin H. Simmons, Dog Company Six.
2001 Professor Donald Chisolm, Waiting for Dead Man's Shoes.
2002 Dr. Norman Friedman, Sea Power as Strategy.
2003 Hon. John F. Lehman, On Seas of Glory.
2004 James D. Hornfischer, The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors.
2005 Michael Walling, Blood Stained Sea.
2006 Rear Admiral Joseph F. Callo, John Paul Jones.
2007 Ian W. Toll, Six Frigates: Epic History of Founding of the US Navy.
2008 George C. Daughan, If by Sea: Forging of the US Navy.
2009 James L. Nelson, George Washington's Secret Navy.
2010 James Scott, Attack on the USS Liberty.
2011 Robert Gandt, The Twilight Warriors.
2012 Elliot Carlson, Joe Rochefort's War: The Odyssey of the Codebreaker Who Outwitted Yamamoto at Midway
2013 Walter R. Borneman, The Admirals: Nimitz, Halsey, Leahy, and King — The Five-Star Admirals Who Won the War at Sea
2014 Jack Cheevers, Act of War: Lyndon Johnson, North Korea, and the Capture of the Spy Ship Pueblo^[1]
2015 Craig L. Symonds, Neptune: The Allied Invasion of Europe and the D-Day Landings^[2]