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  | | 1967 The Year of Fire and Ice by Victor Brooks Hardcover, 236 Pages, Published 2017 by Skyhorse Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-5107-1676-6, ISBN: 1-5107-1676-9 " Blazing hot meets icy cool in a momentous year in US history On New Year’s Day in 1967, the 200 million Americans who lived in the United States were about to experience a fascinating, exciting, and sometimes bewildering twelve months that for many formed an iconic portion of their lives. Despite the fact that the coming year produced no Black Friday, Pearl Harbor, or 9/11 attack, the nation still underwent dramatic changes in everyth ..." |
 | | Last Season of Innocence(Reprint) The Teen Experience in the 1960s by Victor Brooks Paperback, 216 Pages, Published 2015 by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers ISBN-13: 978-1-4422-5595-1, ISBN: 1-4422-5595-1 "Last Season of Innocence discusses the lives of the preteens and teenagers who were in junior high school, high school, and the first year of college in the 1960s. These are the young people who read Seventeen and Mad, watched more television than their older siblings, and tended to listen to 45 rpm singles or "mono" LPs rather than the more sophisticated stereo albums of their older siblings. Substantial numbers of these teens could an ..." |
 | | The Normandy Campaign(1st Edition) 6 June-25 August 1944 by Victor Brooks Hardcover, 288 Pages, Published 2002 by Da Capo Press ISBN-13: 978-0-306-81149-4, ISBN: 0-306-81149-9 "To defeat Nazi Germany, the Allies had to mount the largest amphibious attack in history. Nothing like it in size and scope had ever been attempted. Failure would mean, at best, prolonging the war. At worst, it would give Germany the chance to develop the "wonder weapons" they had been talking about for so long. Despite all of the mistakes and miscues of the Allied armies, as well as the great cost in lives, they secured the beaches wit ..." |
 | | Last Season of Innocence The Teen Experience in the 1960s (Hardback) by Victor Brooks Hardcover, 207 Pages, Published 2012 by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers ISBN-13: 978-1-4422-0917-6, ISBN: 1-4422-0917-8 " .cs95E872D0{text-align:left;text-indent:0pt;margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0pt} .csA62DFD6A{color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-weight:normal; font-style:italic; } .cs5EFED22F{color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-weight:normal; font-style:normal; } Last Season of Innocence discusses the lives of the preteens and teenagers who were in ..." |
 | | Hell Is Upon Us D-Day in the Pacific--Saipan to Guam, June-August 1944 by Victor Brooks Hardcover, 368 Pages, Published 2005 by Da Capo Press ISBN-13: 978-0-306-81369-6, ISBN: 0-306-81369-6 "June 14, 1944, just nine days after the D-Day invasion of Normandy, another mighty fleet steamed towards its own D-Day landing. A huge U.S. flotilla of 800 ships carrying 162,000 men was about to attempt to smash into the outer defenses of the Japanese Empire. Their target was the Marianas Island group, which included Saipan, home to an important Japanese base and a large population of Japanese civilians, and Guam, the first American te ..." |
 | | 1943 Days of Peril, Year of Victory (Hardback) by Victor Brooks Hardcover, 272 Pages, Published 2021 by Stackpole Books, United States ISBN-13: 978-1-4930-4508-2, ISBN: 1-4930-4508-3 "Military historian Victor Brooks argues that the year 1943 marked a significant shift in the World War II balance of power from the Axis to Allied forces." |
 | | The Little Book of Restorative Justice in Education Fostering Responsibility, Healing, and Hope in Schools (Justice and Peacebuilding) by Katherine Evans Ill, Dorothy Vaandering, Victor Brooks Paperback, 144 Pages, Published 2016 by Good Books ISBN-13: 978-1-68099-172-7, ISBN: 1-68099-172-8 "A handbook for teachers and administrators on creating just and equitable learning environments for students; building and maintaining healthy relationships; healing harm and transforming conflict.Much more than a response to harm, restorative justice nurtures relational, interconnected school cultures. The wisdom embedded within its principles and practices is being welcomed at a time when exclusionary discipline and zero tolerance pol ..." |
 | | The Longest Year(Reprint) America at War and at Home in 1944 by Victor Brooks Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 2016 by Skyhorse ISBN-13: 978-1-5107-1132-7, ISBN: 1-5107-1132-5 " A meticulous exploration of one of the most important years in American history. The D-Day invasion, launched on June 6, 1944, is widely referred to as the longest day of World War Two. Historian Victor Brooks argues that 1944 was, in effect, the longest year” for Americans of that era, both in terms of casualties and in deciding the outcome of war itself. Brooks also argues that only the particular war events of 1944 could have prod ..." |
 | | Honor the Brave America's Wars and Warriors by Victor Brooks Hardcover, 254 Pages, Published 2001 by Military Books Club ISBN-13: 978-0-7394-1570-2, ISBN: 0-7394-1570-0 "It tells the story of America's heroes: the soldiers, sailors, and flyers who fought at places forever etched in our history -- Lexington, Gettysburg, San Juan Hill, Belleau Wood, Normandy, Iwo Jima, the 38th Parallel, the Ho Chi Minh Trail ..." |
 | | The Fredericksburg Campaign October 1862-January 1863 (Great Campaigns Series) (Great Campaigns of the Civil War) by Victor Brooks Hardcover, 256 Pages, Published 2000 by Da Capo Press ISBN-13: 978-1-58097-033-4, ISBN: 1-58097-033-8 " No other general on either side of the American Civil War had the opportunity to end the war in a single day that Union General Ambrose Burnside had on December 12, 1862. Burnside's plan to cross the Rappahannock River and surprise Robert E. Lee's overextended Army of Northern Virginia was a brilliant one, perhaps the boldest stroke conceived during the war.Unfortunately, the plan for a river crossing in winter was overly ambitious, an ..." |
 | | The Boston Campaign April 1775-march 1776 (Great Campaigns) by Victor D. Brooks Hardcover, 253 Pages, Published 1999 by Da Capo Press ISBN-13: 978-1-58097-007-5, ISBN: 1-58097-007-9 " The opening campaign of the American Revolution was the one which established the popular image of this conflict forever after. In later campaigns George Washington was to build a European-style army of reasonable proficiency, with adequate uniforms and weaponry. It was in Boston and its surrounding villages, however, that the American Revolution of legend was fought, where some of Britain's finest regiments were bested by embattled fa ..." |
 | | 1967 The Year of Fire and Ice by Victor Brooks 236 Pages, Published 2017 by Skyhorse Publishing Inc. ISBN-13: 978-1-5107-1678-0, ISBN: 1-5107-1678-5 "In an exceptionally daring move, the producers centered You Only Live Twice around a single (albeit hugely popular) Western star and teamed him up with a trio of unknown (in the west) Japanese actors, Tetsuro Tamba, Mie Hama, and Akiko ..." |
 | | The Longest Year America at War and at Home in 1944 by Victor Brooks 264 Pages, Published 2016 by Skyhorse Publishing, Inc. ISBN-13: 978-1-5107-1134-1, ISBN: 1-5107-1134-1 "An excellent place to begin my examination of the American plan for victory in Europe in 1944 is General Dwight ... in Maurine Clark's Captain's Bride, General's Lady (1956), which presents a very different side of the general and an excellent ..." |
 | | The Longest Year America at War and at Home in 1944 by Victor Brooks Hardcover, 264 Pages, Published 2015 by Carrel Books ISBN-13: 978-1-63144-023-6, ISBN: 1-63144-023-3 "The D-Day invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe, launched on June 6, 1944, is widely referred to as the longest day of World War Two. Historian Victor Brooks argues that 1944 was, in effect, the longest year” for Americans of that era, both in terms of United States casualties and in deciding the outcome of war itself. Brooks also argues that only the particular war events of 1944 could have produced the reshuffling” of the cards of life ..." |
 | | Last Season of Innocence The Teen Experience in the 1960s by Victor Brooks 216 Pages, Published 2012 by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers ISBN-13: 978-1-4422-0918-3, ISBN: 1-4422-0918-6 "... female arts and sciences majors to at least register separately, and only Cornell was emphatically coeducational. ... ing teen contributor Jimmy Wescott, also focused on the complications of relatively distant underclass relationships, due to ..." |
 | | Marye's Heights Fredericksburg by Victor Brooks 144 Pages, Published 2007 by Da Capo Press ISBN-13: 978-0-306-81713-7, ISBN: 0-306-81713-6 "While Union engineers and assault troops were fighting a desperate battle to build the pontoon bridges and gain control of the streets of Fredericksburg, a smaller unit of construction troops had been able to fabricate two more bridges near Deep Run Creek before the thin screen of Confederate defenders in that location had been aware of the threat to their position, A combination of extremely dense fog and the deployment of the Re ..." |
 | | The Normandy Campaign 6 June - 25 August, 1944 by Victor Brooks Hardcover, 320 Pages, Published 2001 ISBN-13: 978-0-85052-832-9, ISBN: 0-85052-832-1 "Victor Brooks presents a complete picture of the campaign in Normandy, with full coverage of all the nations taking part and a candid look at the rivalry between the different Allied nations and the different German branches of service." |
 | | The Longest Year America at War and at Home In 1944 by Victor Brooks Published 2015 ISBN-13: 978-1-63144-032-8, ISBN: 1-63144-032-2 |
 | | Last Season of Innocence the Teen Experience in The 1960s by Victor Brooks Published 2012 ISBN-13: 978-1-280-65824-2, ISBN: 1-280-65824-X |
 | | Honor the Brave America's Wars and Warriors by Victor Brooks Published 2007 ISBN-13: 978-0-470-32130-0, ISBN: 0-470-32130-X |
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