Awards
- 1998 California Book Awards, Gold Medal, King Leopold's Ghost
- 1998 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay, Finding the Trapdoor
- 1999 Duff Cooper Prize, King Leopold's Ghost
- 1999 Mark Lynton History Prize, King Leopold's Ghost
- 1999 National Book Critics Circle Award, finalist, King Leopold's Ghost
- 1999 Lionel Gelber Prize
- 2005 National Book Award, finalist, Bury the Chains
- 2005 California Book Awards, Gold Medal, Bury the Chains
- 2005 Lannan Literary Award for Non-Fiction for the full body of work.
- 2005 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History, Bury the Chains
- 2006 PEN USA Literary Award for Research Nonfiction, Bury the Chains
- 2006 Lionel Gelber Prize (first person to have won twice)
- 2009 Theodore Roosevelt-Woodrow Wilson Prize from the American Historical Association
- 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award, finalist, To End All Wars
- 2012 Dayton Literary Peace Prize, winner, To End All Wars
- Honorary degrees from Curry College in Massachusetts and the University of St Andrews in Scotland.
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