Herb Blanchard: 5 books

Cover of Struggles of a Country boy
by Herb Blanchard
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2011

This is the fictionalized story of the author's growing up years during the 1950s. It is the story of a troubled boy, a dysfunctional family and how the boy learned to cope with the adversities life threw at him. The 1950s was the time when it was generally thought the ideal way to raise a boy was...
Cover of An Okinawan Affair
by Herb Blanchard
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2011

Navy Seabee Brad Burgess landed on the island of Okinawa with no regrets and few expectations. He knew a chapter of his life had closed and a new and different life was beginning. Brad easily made friends with all he met and worked with the Okinawans as well as the American civilians who worked...
Cover of DEPLOYMENT VIETNAM -Part 1
by Herb Blanchard
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011

DEPLOYMENT VIETNAM Part 1 only tells part of the story in its 86,000 words. It is a historical and multicultural novel about the American Navy Seabees and what they did and accomplished in Vietnam. A Navy Seabee veteran of over 4 years when he volunteers for a tour of duty in Vietnam in late1966,...
Cover of My Life Before & Without Boomers & Yuppies
by Herb Blanchard
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2011

When I originally came up with the idea for writing about boomers and yuppies, I had the vision of a book of around 80,000 or so words. As it progressed, I began to realize that I really didn’t have that much to say on the subject of LIFE BEFORE BOOMERS & YUPPIES, my first title. My thoughts...
Cover of Shuri Gate
by Herb Blanchard
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2011

Shuri Gate is a fictional memoir of the author’s military tours in Asia particularly on the island of Okinawa while serving in the US Air Force as a KC135 tanker crew chief. It is the story of the relationship and eventual marriage of an inter-racial couple on the island. Tomako is Okinawan by birth...
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