Books written by Victor Brooks
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Last Season of Innocence: The Teen Experience in the 1960s
The program largely owed its genesis to the enormous American movie audience response to the third installment of the film adventures of James Bond, based on Ian Fleming's book series. While the first two films in the series, ...
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1967: The Year of Fire and Ice
The production team of Albert “Cubby” Broccoli and Harry Saltzman, who brought Ian Fleming's James Bond character to the screen in Dr. No, secured the services of famed writer Roald Dahl and premier musical score creator John Barry to ...
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Boomers: The Cold-War Generation Grows Up
In 1963 United Artists released Dr. No, the first film version of the British writer Ian Fleming's James Bond novels, which were particular favorites of President Kennedy. The initial film and its sequel, From Russia with Love, ...
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Hell Is Upon Us: D-Day in the Pacific--Saipan to Guam, June-August 1944
June 14, 1944, just nine days after the D-Day invasion of Normandy, another mighty fleet steamed towards its own D-Day landing.
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The Fredericksburg Campaign: October 1862-january 1863
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...
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Marye's Heights: Fredericksburg
Fredericksburg was one of the most tragic battles of the Civil War. No sector was more hotly contested than the area held by Longstreet's troops and known as Marye's Heights.
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Honor the Brave: America's Wars and Warriors
The wars, the battles, and the heroes that have made and kept America free "Stand your ground! Don’t fire unless fired upon! But if they want to have a war,...
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The Longest Year: America at War and at Home in 1944
It has been said that the arc of history is long. Throughout American history, however, some years have been truly momentous. This book makes the case that 1944 was one such year.
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The Longest Year: America at War and at Home in 1944
It has been said that the arc of history is long. Throughout American history, however, some years have been truly momentous. This book makes the case that 1944 was one such year.
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Honor the Brave: America's Wars and Warriors
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 ...
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Hell Is Upon Us: D-Day in the Pacific--Saipan to Guam, June-August 1944
Hell Is Upon Us skillfully describes the entire Marianas campaign-World War II's most ambitious combined service operation and the largest carrier battle in history-and provides riveting first-hand accounts of the soldiers, marines, sailors ...