1 million pound advance for Victoria Cross winner

Publishers Marketplace reports that:

“26-year-old British private and Victoria Cross winner Johnson Beharry’s memoir of the war in Iraq and his heroic exploits, to Little, Brown UK, at auction, presumed to be for 1 million pounds”

Hard to imagine they’ll make their money back … but a good place to waste it.

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