Today Mike Freeland shared the most amazing story at lunch. This author of Blood River To Berlin has sold copies of his book for more than 4 - (YES - FOUR) times the published list price of the book! How could that be?! It’s obvious after spending a couple of hours with this gentleman and his bride of nearly 60 years, Ellen, that folks are simply drawn to him for his self-deprecating humor and charisma as well as the topic of the book.
I’m going to write more about this book in future blogs because I’m going to being working with Mike and Ellen, but let me say briefly that it is a joltingly unvarnished recounting of the realities of soldiering in World War II. Mike was a Medic in Berlin and shares the stories of those he knew at the time and those he met when they all returned to Europe several years ago to tour the battlefields as a group celebrated as The Greatest Generation.
The book is not written in a voice to evoke warm feelings neatly wrapped up at the end — it’s pretty much an endorsement that “war is hell.”
Mike said that after folks have heard him talk they will insist on paying up to $100 per book(!) because that is the value they believe it has as a historical view that has not been explored — WWII first-person accounts as told from the perspective of a regular soldier. Some book buyers are insisting on paying more for this book than a first-edition of The Rainmaker by bajillion best-selling author John Grisham is going for in highfalutin collector circles!
Check out Mike Freeland’s website. His book is available for purchase on his website and at his official appearances.
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A very good book. Well presented. Interesting.
I agree! Folks are really connecting to this book, its heart and its soul!