The Hidden Legacy of World War II: A Daughter's Journey of Discovery - Softcover

Vento, Carol Schultz

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1934597813 ISBN 13: 9781934597811

Publisher: Sunbury Press, Inc., 2011

Synopsis

Daughters, fathers and war – three words seldom used together. In "The Hidden Legacy of World War II: A Daughter’s Journey of Discovery", Carol Schultz Vento weaves life with her paratrooper father into the larger narrative of World War II and the homecoming of the Greatest Generation. The book describes the seldom told story of how the war trauma of World War II impacted one family. This personal story is combined with the author’s thorough research and investigation of the reality for those World War II veterans who could not forget the horrors of war. This nonfiction work fills in the missing pieces of the commonly accepted societal view of World War II veterans as stoic and unwavering, a true but incomplete portrait of that generation of warrior.

About this title

About the Author:

Carol Schultz Vento is a former Political Science professor and attorney. She is a graduate of Temple University and Rutgers University School of Law. She is the daughter of 82nd Airborne World War II veteran Arthur 'Dutch' Schultz, an 82nd Airborne paratrooper who was portrayed in the D-Day war movie, The Longest Day. Carol is a native of Philadelphia and lives in Palmyra, New Jersey.

Review:

Your book brilliantly captures this war within and the invisible scars that so many WWII veterans carried, as do the veterans of today's modern wars.  Jaw-dropping in its candor, The Hidden Legacy of WWII expresses the internal struggles of WWII veterans like no other book I've ever read.   Patrick K O'Donnell - Beyond Valor and many other books.

Arthur "Dutch" Schultz, Carol Schultz Vento's father, was a genuine war hero--brave, modest, and steadfast. But there was, as his daughter Carol Schultz Vento so movingly recounts in Hidden Legacy, another Dutch Schultz, another reality, one that the public did not see.  Thomas Childers - Author, Soldier from the War Returning

Military Writers Society of America 2012 Silver Medal for Creative Nonfiction

About this edition

• Publisher: Sunbury Press, Inc.
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1934597813
• ISBN 13: 9781934597811
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 190