At Danger’s Ebb When vigilance sleeps. Beware my friend, Thine enemy creeps.
Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel At Danger’s Ebb When vigilance sleeps. Beware my friend, Thine enemy creeps. Born Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel in 1883, Coco Chanel was one of seven children raised in Saumur, France. Her father was a street vendor, her mother a seamstress. When Chanel was seven, her mother died [See More]
Scheduled Book Signings – 2024
Barnes & Noble Sunday 28 January 2024 2:00 to 4:00 pm Fashion Island 401 Newport Center Drive Suite A Newport Beach, California 92660 949 718 0109 Warwick’s Thursday, 9 May 2024 7:30 to 10:00 pm 7812 Girard Avenue La Jolla, California 92037 619 232 9700
Featured in Beverly Hills Weekly
Somewhere in the South Pacific is featured in the Beverly Hills Weekly Magazine. Former Beverly Hills Police Chief DAVE SNOWDEN is reading “Some where in the South Pacific” by John J. Gobbell. The book is inspired by the true story of John F. Kennedy’s daring naval mission at the height of [See More]
Severn Rivers Publishing Awards Plague for 250,000 Copies Sold
This came to me in latter August, 2022. I wasn’t expecting it. But then that’s how Andrew Watts, the CEO of Severn River Publishing, works. He likes to surprise people. And this was in the tradition of the U.S. Navy’s BRAVO ZULU (well done) flaghoist with Andrew tapping his background at [See More]
Life on a Destroyer
Destroyer life isn’t always like this. But, every so often, a weather system overruns a Sailor, yanking him through a horrific maelstrom, the ship savagely bucking as she desperately seeks calmer seas. And when they do come, those night watches under an ebony sky where millions of God’s brilliantly lighted sentinels [See More]
SURRENDER AT TOKYO BAY by John Gobbell
September 01, 2006 At a little after two o'clock, General Douglas A. MacArthur's four-engine C-54, aptly named Bataan, landed and bounced to a stop in a cloud of dust. The General descended the ramp, smiling and waving, his corn-cob pipe clamped between his teeth. Only weeks before, Imperial Japanese Army and [See More]