THE launch on Friday of Joe Mière’s personal account of the Occupation of the Channel Islands, Never to Be Forgotten, has been hailed by Channel Island Publishing as the company’s most successful book signing.
Nearly 800 copies of the book by the 77-year-old former curator of the German Underground Hospital were sold at signings on Friday evening and throughout the weekend at the Jersey War Tunnels.
Of the 2,000 copies printed, a total of 1,177 have now left the publisher’s warehouse including those sold at the signings and others now on the shelves of local book stores.
Mr Mière, a political prisoner during the Occupation, was kept busy for nearly three hours on Friday night signing copies for eager purchasers, some of whom were carrying armfulls of books.
The only break came when speaker Freddie Cohen, vice chairman of Jersey Heritage Trust, gave his speech praising Mr Mière’s painstaking devotion to recording life under occupation.
Article posted on 26th July, 2004 - 12.00am
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