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Echoes from the Infantry
Frank Nappi
St. Martin's Press
November 2005
256 pages
ISBN: 0312332726
Hardcover
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Historical
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 synthesized those reminiscences and crafted them
into a heartwarming and at times harrowing novel: Echoes
from the Infantry. It is the fictionalized tale of one Long
Island veteran, the misery of combat, and the powerful
emotional bond that connected him to his fiance 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.
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