| Year | Author | Title |
|---|
| 1957 | David Schoenbrun | As France Goes |
| 1958 | John Gunther | Inside Russia Today |
| 1959 | Cornelius Ryan | The Longest Day |
| 1960 | William L. Shirer | The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich |
| 1961 | John Toland | But Not in Shame: The Six Months After Pearl Harbor |
| 1962 | Seymour Freidin | The Forgotten People: An Eye Witness Account of the People in the Iron Curtain Countries of Europe from 1945-1961 |
| 1963 | Dan Kurzman | Subversion of the Innocents: Patterns of Communist Penetration in Africa, the Middle East, and Asia |
| 1964 | Robert Trumbull | The Scrutable East: A Correspondent's Report on Southeast Asia |
| 1965 | Robert Shaplen | The Lost Revolution: The U.S. in Vietnam, 1946–1966 |
| 1966 | Welles Hangen | The Muted Revolution: East Germany's Challenge to Russia and the West |
| 1967 | George F. Kennan | Memoirs, 1925–1950 |
| 1968 | George W. Ball | The Discipline of Power: Essentials of a Modern World Structure |
| 1969 | Townsend Hoopes | The Limits of Intervention: An Inside Account of How the Johnson Policy of Escalation in Vietnam was Reversed |
| 1970 | John Toland | The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936–1945 |
| 1971 | Anthony Austin | The President's War: The Story of the Tonkin Gulf Resolution and How the Nation was Trapped in Vietnam |
| 1972 | David Halberstam | The Best and the Brightest |
| 1973 | C.L. Sulzberger | An Age of Mediocrity: Memoirs and Diaries, 1963–1972 |
| 1974 | Cornelius Ryan | A Bridge Too Far |
| 1975 | Phillip Knightley | The First Casualty: The War Correspondent as Hero, Propagandist, and Myth Maker from the Crimea to Vietnam |
| 1976 | John Toland | Adolf Hitler |
| 1977 | David McCullough | The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870–1914 |
| 1978 | Tad Szulc | The Illusion of Peace: Foreign Policy in the Nixon Years |
| 1979 | Peter Wyden | Bay of Pigs: The Untold Story |
| 1980 | Dan Kurzman | Miracle of November: Madrid's Epic Stand, 1936 |
| 1981 | Pierre Salinger | America Held Hostage: The Secret Negotiations |
| 1982 | Fox Butterfield | China: Alive in the Bitter Sea |
| 1983 | David Shipler | Russia: Broken Idols, Solemn Dreams |
| 1984 | Kevin Klose | Russia and the Russians: Inside the Closed Society |
| 1985 | Joseph Lelyveld | Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and White |
| 1986 | Tad Szulc | Fidel: A Critical Portrait |
| 1987 | Raymond Bonner | Waltzing with a Dictator: The Marcoses and the Making of American Policy |
| 1988 | Whitman Bassow | The Moscow Correspondents: Reporting on Russia from the Revolution to Glasnost |
| 1989 | Thomas Friedman | From Beirut to Jerusalem |
| 1990 | Tad Szulc | Then and Now: How the World Has Changed Since World War II |
| 1991 | Sam Dillon | Comandos: The CIA and Nicaragua's Contra Rebels |
| 1992 | Misha Glenny | The Fall of Yugoslavia: The Third Balkan War |
| 1993 | Mary Anne Weaver | Pakistan: In the Shadow of Jihad and Afghanistan |
| 1994 | Michael Ignatieff | Blood and Belonging: Journeys into the New Nationalism |
| 1995 | Roger Warner | Back Fire: The CIA's Secret War in Laos and It's Link to the War in Vietnam |
| 1996 | Peter Maas | Love Thy Neighbor: A Story of War |
| 1997 | Patrick Smith | Japan: A Reinterpretation |
| 1998 | Philip Gourevitch | We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda |
| 1999 | Thomas L. Friedman | The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization |
| 2000 | A. J. Langguth | Our Vietnam: The War 1954–1975 |
| 2001 | Mark Bowden | Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World's Greatest Outlaw |
| 2002 | John Laurence | The Cat from Hué: A Vietnam War Story |
| 2003 | Milt Bearden,
James Risen | The Main Enemy: The Inside Story of the CIA's Final Showdown with the KGB |
| 2004 | Steve Coll | Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 |
| 2005 | George Packer | The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq |
| 2006 | Rajiv Chandrasekaran | Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone |
| 2007 | Bob Drogin | Curveball: Spies, Lies, and the Con Man Who Caused a War |
| 2008 | Dexter Filkins | The Forever War |
| 2009 | David Finkel | The Good Soldiers |
| 2010 | Oliver Bullough | Let Our Fame be Great: Journeys among the Defiant People of the Caucasus |
| 2011 | Robin Wright | Rock the Casbah: Rage and Rebellion Across the Islamic World |
| 2012 | Peter Bergen | Manhunt: The Ten-Year Search for Bin Laden From 9/11 to Abbottabad |
| 2013 | Jonathan M. Katz | The Big Truck That Went By: How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster |
| 2014 | Evan Osnos | Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China |
| 2015 | Tom Burgis | The Looting Machine: Warlords, Oligarchs, Corporations, Smugglers, and the Theft of Africa's Wealth |
| 2016 | Arkady Ostrovsky | The Invention of Russia: From Gorbachev’s Freedom to Putin’s War |
| 2017 | Suzy Hansen | Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World |
| 2018 | Rania Abouzeid | No Turning Back: Life, Loss and Hope in Wartime Syria |
| 2019 | Katherine Eban | Bottle of Lies: Inside the Generic Drug Boom |