Amazon Kindle version can be download free this weekend.

The Amazon Kindle version of Sojourn in Silesia by Arthur Evans CBE will be free for the very last time between Friday 11th and Sunday 13th May on Amazon. It won't be given away free again, so don't miss out!

Sojourn in Silesia has 5* reviews on Amazon and is also available in paperback. It was first published in 1995 and the 4th edition was published in July 2011 with some added extras at the front of the book.

Synopsis

Arthur Evans CBE served in the Irish Guards during WWII, but was captured the first day he arrived in France and spent the rest of the war as a prisoner, working in coal mines in Silesia.

Reviews

“I read this book after it was recommended to me. Most enjoyable with tears in my eyes, probably on more than one occasion. It is amazing what the human body can take when subjected to the harshness of war?”

“My father was in the N.African desert during WW2 and never said much about it. Everyone should read books like this to know what really happened. I never knew men were so reliant on Red Cross parcels. An evocative book which I read in a day.”

“A very readable story of one man's account of being a prisoner of war. The pressures, anxieties and comradeship. It certainly gives food for thought about how anybody could not only survive the ordeal, but learn from it. Not the "Great Escape", but somehow all the more poignant.”

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If you do download Sojourn in Silesia during this 3 day free promotion, please take the time to review the book on Amazon.

Sunday, 16th May 1943

My dear Mother & Father,

What else can I write about other than my health & the weather.  I don't know, however I will do my best to fill up this letter.

Both parcels and letters from England are few and far between nowadays, I myself have had no letters for, I think, 10 or 12 days.  Of course we all know that you have been asked not to write more than once per week and that accounts for this present gap.  I am confident that you are all in the best of health & spirits - the church bells should be ringing in England today. 

Burt & I are both "in the pink" and in company of forty thousand others, are about to enter our fourth year of captivity, I wonder whether we will complete it?

I see the show in which Uncle Anton was engaged had it's final performance last Thursday to a record house- I would have given a lot to have been there last night.  Did you know that Mr Alexander belonged to the same firm as I?

We are beginning to feel the heat of the sun - today however is cloudy.  Looking back last winter was not winter at all compared with those of 40/41 & 41/42.

Well you have no need whatsoever to worry about Burt & I, I think we can both gain the scales at a good 12 stone & we are content. 

Please give my love to Dot and regards to relations etc.

All my love,

Arthur.

The Amazon Kindle version of Sojourn in Silesia by Arthur Evans CBE will be free for the very last time between 11th and 13th May on Amazon. It won't be given away free again, so don't miss out!

Sojourn in Silesia has 5* reviews on Amazon and is also available in paperback. It was first published in 1995 and the 4th edition was published in July 2011 with some added extras at the front of the book.

The book will be free on all Amazon websites, UK, US, France, Germany, Italy and Spain. Here are the UK and US links below:

UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sojourn-Silesia-1940-1945-ebook/dp/B0058KTHL0/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1334590095&sr=8-1

US: http://www.amazon.com/Sojourn-Silesia-1940-1945-ebook/dp/B0058KTHL0/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1334590545&sr=8-2

Sunday, 9th May 1943

Postcard:

Dear Mother & Father,

A few lines to let you know that Burt & I are very well, enjoying the best of health and spirits and glorious sunshine.  I have received no letters from you this week so haven't got a lot to say, just to remind you that it is three years to the day since I saw you last - you are giving Uncle Antonio a headache - a fitting three year anniversary.

Love Arthur.

On this day:

In Britain... A German Ju88, fitted with the new Liechtenstein BC radar set, lands in Scotland. It has been flown there by a British intelligence agent. The analysis of this new night-fighter equipment assists the British strategic bombing effort.

Sunday, 2nd May 1943

My dear Dorothy,

Your letter of 4th April arrived some days ago, I will therefore attempt to answer both.  I say attempt because I just don't know what to say about your forthcoming marriage, it certainly took me by surprise to say the least and what Mum & Dad will say goodness only knows.  Still I don't expect it matters much nowadays what parents care to say.  It would be easier if I had seen Ken - even a photograph.  You must remember that when I saw you last you had piratically just left school (I hope this isn't making you mad) and started work, since then (almost to the day) three long, weary years have past and then suddenly you say you are getting married!

Why I am writing in this strain I can't say, I have just re-read what I have written and apparently I am taking your forthcoming marriage more serious that you do yourself - because the two occasions on which you have mentioned it the words are just tucked away in a corner as though you are mentioning the fact that you have a cold!

As I said in the beginning I have not seen Ken - if you approve of him that's good enough for me - it's all very bewildering though,  I had better post this before I destroy it.  I am very happy, not half as bad as this letter sounds. 

Love,

Arthur

On this day:

Over Occupied France... British Mosquito bombers raid the railway yards at Thionville in Lorraine.

Over Britain... German Dornier bombers lay mines off the estuaries of Thames and Humber.

In the Baltic... The German transport liner Gneisenau is sunk by a British mine laid by RAF aircraft.

About 3 weeks ago, myself and my husband travelled to The Wirral to visit Dorothy and hand over the first half of these letters.  I had checked with her that she would want to read them through and that she wouldn't find it too distressing and she was keen to do so.  She has since told me on the phone that she is working her way through them.  I am happy that she is seeing them and seeing Dad's handwriting and that these are not just sitting somewhere gathering dust.  Once I have reached then end of the letters, I will send them to her, they will then not be far from there original destination back in the 1940's.

Kathy.

Friday (Good Friday) 23rd April 1943

My dear Mother & Father,

2 letters to acknowledge this week, one from Dot dated 21/3 and one from Mum dated 24/3.  Glad to hear you received so much mail from me, 5 times within 4 days is quite a record, isn't it?  I am sorry to hear about the one letter per week per family, but war is war and so long as I hear from you regularly once per week I will have nothing to worry about.

We have just had a glorious sunny day today, I must start sunbathing in order to get a nice colour for coming home, but I don't think that will be until this time next year.  Well & herewith enclosed the promised photograph of Burt & myself, together with some of the other chaps of this party, taken outside the cookhouse.  The other chaps all belong to the Navy, except the fellow next to the big chap on the back row who comes from Liverpool and is our medical orderly.  I hope you will tell me if you think I have changed much - and in what way.  Of course I must have changed some way or other.  My moustache (now over 12 months old) is hardly noticeable.  Now you can see for yourself who to look out for at Lime Street station someday.

Burt & I all in perfect health and wish the same to you.

Love,

Arthur

Today, 18th March 2012 is the 1st anniversary of Arthur's death.  He died 3 days short of his 95th birthday.

RIP Dad.