Foreword Reviews named The Price They Paid: Enduring Wounds of War its Book of the Year for war and military nonfiction published in 2015.
The annual Gold Awards are selected from thousands of books published by independent and university presses.
The author, Michael Putzel, said he was honored by the book’s selection and considered it a tribute to the characters in the book who shared their stories with him.
The Price They Paid is the true story of one air cavalry unit, C Troop, 2/17 Cavalry, 101st Airborne Division, that flew into the most intensive helicopter battle ever, the invasion of Laos in early 1971 to try to cut the notorious Ho Chi Minh Trail. The book takes the commander, known as Condor 6, and his troops through devastating combat as they fought to bring each other home, then chronicles their struggle for the next forty years with the physical and emotional scars no one knew would haunt them and their families for the rest of their lives.
