July 4, 2007
PILGRIMS OF WAR -- A MOVING NOVEL OF THE INTERNMENT OF JAPANESE, GERMAN AND ITALIANS DURING WORLD WAR II
Awarding winning author and screenwriter Carl A. Veno's moving novel " Pilgrims of War" is now available by Publish American and will be released to Amazon. com and bookstores in three weeks. The novel based on a true story of the internment of not only Japanese, but Germans and Italians during World War II.
Struck by reckless paranoia and disregard for justice the United states arrested thousand of Japanese, German immigrants and Italians before and after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Stripped of any legal rights the were yanked from their home and sent to one of the 42 camps in the United States. They committed no crimes and yet the dark secret of the internment of thousands of Germans and Italians is still unrecognized. Amid this upheaval is Doctor Magdalena Russo, a doctor on a passenger ship, caught in the conflict and spends the next three years in internment camps. Her struggle takes her to a voyage of confinement, loneliness, fear and love.
The novel sends a clear message about the injustices suffered by these Germans and Italians. Although the Japanese were eventually given a formal apology, the Germans and Italians remain unrecognized. Even today the halls of Congress remain silent as thousands wait for a kind word for the injustices inflected on them.
Mr. Veno is the author of " Invisible Ink" and has worked for the Orlando Sentinel, The Mount Vernon Argus, the Yonkers Herald Statesman, The Hudson Dispatch, the New York Daily News, The Bergen Record, The Newark News and the Quakertown Free Press. He has been nominated for the Pulitzer prize.
He has written a screenplay" Little Chicago" based on the Prohibition's impact on small cites and is currently working on the movie set for production in the fall. Veno plans to write a screenplay about " Pilgrims of War" next year.
Veno, who lives in Allentown, PA. with his wife attorney Linda, can be reached at Carlveno@Luther-Veno.com or www.carlveno.com