Welcome to
the website of
A SOLDIER'S PROMISE
A novel by Shirley Shipman Johnson & Houston R. Davis
The book is based on true life events as told by Alvin and Inez Shipman to their daughter, Shirley, before their deaths in 1979.
Share their rich love story as two young people are caught up in the turbulent years of WWII. Learn how they met, fell in love and got married, all in only eleven days! Then follow Sergeant Alvin W. Shipman during the fourteen months he was part of the final push into Nazi Germany and the liberation of the Nazi death camp called Mauthausen. Find out about the "promise" Alvin Shipman makes to a prisoner inside Mauthausen, and how a small book produced inside the prison was smuggled out to America (and is now reprinted here in A Soldier's Promise). It contains the only deathbed confession by a Nazi Concentration/labor Camp Commander known to exist. It is a historically gripping narrative of atrocities committed on the millions of prisoners while under Nazi control.
See how you, as a reader of A Soldier's Promise, help to fullfill a promise made between an American soldier and a Nazi war prisoner during the Holocaust in 1945. Also, in a very important way, you are helping a daughter, Shirley Shipman Johnson fulfill the last promise she made to her father, Alvin W. Shipman just before his death in 1979. Keep watching this website for more on A Daughter's Promise, The Shirley Shipman Johnson Story.
