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Rekishi Gunzo Grand Award れきしぐんぞうたいしょう

Edition 13 (2007)

Simulation novelsWar chronicle novelsHistorical novelsPeriod novels

Winners

4 people
深水聡之 best award

After Tsutsui Junsho falls into melancholy following the pacification of Yamato, his wife plans to use a body double to protect him and deceive outside enemies.

A body-double scheme casts a strange shadow over a Sengoku castle in Yamato.

296 pages
Sengoku periodbody doubleYamato
河原谷創次郎 かわらたに そうじろう best award

Set in Wei during the Three Kingdoms period, the novel follows the general Hao Zhao and his son Kai. The order to stop Zhuge Liang’s advance draws father and son into battle.

An awkward great general and his son head toward the defense of Chencang.

251 pages
Three Kingdomsfather and sonhistorical war fiction
真田左近 さなだ さこん honorable mention

An alternate-war novel about the Solomon air campaign in the Pacific War. Centering on Zero fighters and their pilots, it depicts operations in the sky and the tension of life and death.

In the skies over the Solomons, Zero fighters open another course of war.

228 pages
air waralternate war fictionPacific War
天宮謙輔 あまみや けんすけ encouragement award

After the success of the Pearl Harbor attack, the carrier force receives a message calling for a second strike. Admiral Nagumo’s decision becomes the turning point for an alternate course of the Pacific War.

Over Pearl Harbor, the choice of a second strike is forced into view.

256 pages
Pearl Harboralternate war fictionPacific War