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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 ..."

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 ..."

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 ..."

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

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

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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."

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 ..."

How America Fought Its Wars
Military Strategy from the American Revolution to the Civil War
by Victor Brooks, Robert Hohwald
Hardcover, 496 Pages, Published 2003 by Book Sales
ISBN-13: 978-0-7858-1684-3, ISBN: 0-7858-1684-4

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

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 ..."