Julien A Fonte

A Letter From Thomas Julien A Fonte

It was a chance encounter at the bank in Long Island. An elderly doctor and a retired teacher both resigned to living out their lives uneventfully would in an instant be taken to a time and place they never in their wildest dreams thought they would revisit.
It was 1944 and the whole of humanity was firmly entrenched in war. A war that had been raging on for some five long years. Fought on battlefields in Europe, Asia, Africa, even threatening the shores of coastal America. It seemed as if there would be no end to this worldwide calamity.
Amid it all another war, a very personal one, was being fought by two brave souls.
Thomas Donahue was an army medic whose family journeyed from England, before settling in Noblesville, Indiana.
Mary Mascia, a teacher, was an Italian immigrant whose family came to America in the early 1920's, settling in New Haven, Connecticut when she was still a babe in arms.
Theirs' was a battle of hearts. Fought along ethnic and cultural lines, it nonetheless raged on until its inevitable conclusion. See how it all plays out in the heart stirring historical novel based on true events:
A Letter From Thomas!