A Long Way Back has won the Seal of Approval from Literary Classics. 
A Long Way Back is a finalist for the Montaigne Medal Award. Each year, the Eric Hoffer Award presents the Montaigne Medal to the most thought-provoking books. These are books that either illuminate, progress, or redirect thought. The Montaigne Medal is given in honor of the great French philosopher Michel de Montaigne, who influenced people such as William Shakespeare, René Descartes, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Friedrich Nietzsche, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Eric Hoffer. This is an additional distinction beneath the Eric Hoffer Award umbrella.
A Long Way Back is a 2015 Foreword Reviews’ INDIEFAB Book of the Year Awards winner.
A Long Way Back is a 2015 Literary Classics winner.
A Long Way Back is an Independent Publishers of New England first place winner.
A Long Way Back is the Military Writers Society of America’s Silver Award winner.
A Long Way Back is the DNQ winner in the 2016 Benjamin Franklin Awards.
