{"product_id":"promise-keeper-book","title":"Promise Keeper Book","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"woocommerce-tabs wc-tabs-wrapper\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"woocommerce-Tabs-panel woocommerce-Tabs-panel--description panel entry-content wc-tab\" id=\"tab-description\" role=\"tabpanel\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Aptos; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;\"\u003ePROMISE KEEPER\u003cbr\u003eA Soldier’s Promise, Kept Across Enemy Lines\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRELEASE DATE: 14 NOVEMBER 2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Wartime Testimony of Fusilier Eric Armstrong\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1940, as Europe fell beneath the shadow of war, a young soldier from Milford, County Armagh, found himself far from home, cold, frightened and uncertain whether he would live to see another morning.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe did—but the young man who returned was not the same one who had gone away.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEric Armstrong had grown up in rural Ulster between two world wars, in a home shaped by hard work, family and faith, before enlisting like thousands of his generation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCaptured during the retreat from France in 1940, Eric was taken into captivity. The years that followed brought prison camps, forced labour, hunger and the daily uncertainty of life behind barbed wire. At Stalag XXA and the labour camps beyond it, survival depended on endurance, resourcefulness and the kindness of others.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne act of kindness stayed with him for life. In Poland, a local family reached beyond the divisions of war to help a frightened young prisoner. From that friendship came a promise—one Eric carried home and kept quietly through the years, until, thirty-four years later, he returned to Poland with his wife to find the family who had once helped him survive.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLike many who came home from war, Eric seldom spoke of what he had endured. His children heard only fragments: memories at the bedside, stories softened for young ears, and silences they understood only much later.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCompiled by his daughter, Lynda Pollock, from Eric’s memoirs, wartime correspondence and the family archive, Promise Keeper preserves the testimony of a generation taught to endure without complaint.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor all who have wondered what became of the men who returned home, and why so many could never speak of it, this is one man’s answer.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePre-Order for shipping 15th November\u003cbr style=\"mso-special-character: line-break;\"\u003e\u003c!--[endif]--\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e©ASA 2026\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Empire Poppy Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59019822072189,"sku":null,"price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0258\/9353\/5853\/files\/file_00000000f0c482439fd27563baf1ff96.png?v=1793454296","url":"https:\/\/empirepoppy.store\/products\/promise-keeper-book","provider":"Empire Poppy Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}