"Soldiers & Sailors reawakens the American epic novel for a new generation, a Poe-haunted masterwork of storytelling that fuses war story and ghost story, with stirring visions of a late-twentieth-century Mississippi River town beset by horrors both spectral and all too human." -William Giraldi, author of Hold the Dark

"Terrence Holt's epic novel plunges us irresistibly into a mysterious city of phantoms. Ghost story and war story, Soldiers & Sailors unfolds the many ways in which the psychic residues of war haunt the living and harrow the dead. Long after finishing the book, readers will hear its suffering spirits crying, ‘Remember me!’" -Elizabeth D. Samet, author of Looking for the Good War: American Amnesia and the Violent Pursuit of Happiness

"I just finished Soldiers & Sailors in a state of elated reverie. Terrence Holt summons a range of tormented voices in this vivid novel, including that of Dr. Hal Adams, who absorbs the feverish stories of men formerly at war in an out-of-the-way home for veterans in a Mississippi [river] town that history has abandoned. But the past never passes, and the doctor's own traumatic story blends with those of his patients. The reader is soon drawn into a fantasia of war and remembrance that deserves a place of pride on any bookshelf beside The Naked and the Dead, Catch-22, and The Things They Carried. The beauty of the prose is almost painful at times, and Holt’s novel is a gift to us at time when, more than ever, we desperately need to grapple with the roots of human conflict." -Jay Parini, author of The Last Station and Borges and Me