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World War II veteran Michael Freeland will be speaking about his book, Blood River to Berlin Saturday, August 31 at 2 p.m. at the Clarksville-Montgomery County Public Library, with a book signing afterwards.
Blood River to Berlin is a memoir of Freeland’s experience as a Tennessee farm boy traveling from his home Blood River, located in Henry County, to the fields of Europe as a soldier in WWII.
Mr. Freeland was inspired to write the book after visiting WWII cemeteries in Europe in the mid-2000s. The book is partly taken from journals begun when he turned twenty on a ship in the Atlantic Ocean on the way to Europe to serve as a combat medic with the 82nd Airborne.
Freeland has taught leadership classes to soldiers at Ft. Campbell as an adjunct professor at APSU and also gives motivational workshops. He and his wife Ellen currently reside in Hopkinsville, Kentucky.
This event is free and open to the public.
For further information contact:
Martha Hendricks, Director, Clarksville-Montgomery County Public Library
931-648-8826 x61400
martha@clarksville.org