Astrid M. Eckert is the 2013 recipient of the Waldo Gifford Leland Award given by the Society of American Archivists (SAA) for her book, The Struggle for the Files: The Western Allies and the Return of German Archives after the Second World War, published by Cambridge University Press. The award will be presented at a ceremony during the Council of State Archivists and SAA Joint Annual Meeting in New Orleans, August 11-17, 2013.