Frank Nappi is a school teacher on Long Island who, over the last several years, befriended aging World War II veterans in his community. As he heard their reminiscences he became absorbed in their stories of simple heroism - and of trying to recapture what they'd left behind when they returned home. They are the stories of men who never asked for recognition or adulation, only a place in the free and prosperous society they'd built with their own blood, sweat and tears - men who could never entirely leave behind the horrors of the battlefield, or explain them to their own children. Now, Nappi has synthesised those reminiscences and crafted them into a heart warming and at times harrowing novel: "Echoes from the Infantry". It is the fictionalised tale of one Long Island veteran, the misery of combat, and the powerful emotional bond that connected him to his fiancee back home and that allowed him to survive the war with his soul battered but intact. It is about a father and a son, and their ultimately redemptive struggle to understand the worlds that shaped each one - one a world at war, the other a world shaped by its veterans.
- ISBN10 0312332726
- ISBN13 9780312332723
- Publish Date 1 November 2005
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 13 December 2008
- Publish Country US
- Imprint St Martin's Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 256
- Language English