Beneath a Scarlet Sky
by Mark T. Sullivan | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 1503943372 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 1503943372 Global Overview for this book
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Book burble: “An incredible, story beautifully written, and a fine and noble book.” –James Patterson, New York Times bestselling author
MARK SULLIVAN #1 Amazon Charts Bestseller
IN WORLD WAR II ITALY, LOVE WAS WORTH SPYING FOR.
Based on the true story of a forgotten hero, Beneath a Scarlet Sky is the triumphant, epic tale of one young man’s incredible courage and resilience during one of history’s darkest hours.
Pino Lella wants nothing to do with the war or the Nazis. He’s a normal Italian teenager – obsessed with music, food, and girls – but his days of innocence are numbered. When his family home in Milan is destroyed by allied bombs, Pino joins an underground railroad helping Jews escape over the Alps, and falls for Anna, a beautiful widow six years his senior.
In an attempt to protect him, Pino’s parents force him to enlist as a German soldier – a more they think will keep him out of combat. But after Pino is injured, he is recruited as the tender age of eighteen to become the personal driver of Adolf Hitler’s left hand in Italy, General Hans Leyers, one of the third Reich’s most mysterious and powerful commanders.
Now, with the opportunity to spy for the Allies inside the German High Command, Pino endures the horrors of the war and the Nazi occupation by fighting in secret, his courage bolstered by his love for Anna and for the life he dreams they will one day share.
BENEATH A SCARLET SKY by MARK SULLIVAN (2017) | ISBN: 1503 9433 72 / 978 1503 9433 77 | Publisher: Lake Union Publishing, Amazon
MARK SULLIVAN #1 Amazon Charts Bestseller
IN WORLD WAR II ITALY, LOVE WAS WORTH SPYING FOR.
Based on the true story of a forgotten hero, Beneath a Scarlet Sky is the triumphant, epic tale of one young man’s incredible courage and resilience during one of history’s darkest hours.
Pino Lella wants nothing to do with the war or the Nazis. He’s a normal Italian teenager – obsessed with music, food, and girls – but his days of innocence are numbered. When his family home in Milan is destroyed by allied bombs, Pino joins an underground railroad helping Jews escape over the Alps, and falls for Anna, a beautiful widow six years his senior.
In an attempt to protect him, Pino’s parents force him to enlist as a German soldier – a more they think will keep him out of combat. But after Pino is injured, he is recruited as the tender age of eighteen to become the personal driver of Adolf Hitler’s left hand in Italy, General Hans Leyers, one of the third Reich’s most mysterious and powerful commanders.
Now, with the opportunity to spy for the Allies inside the German High Command, Pino endures the horrors of the war and the Nazi occupation by fighting in secret, his courage bolstered by his love for Anna and for the life he dreams they will one day share.
BENEATH A SCARLET SKY by MARK SULLIVAN (2017) | ISBN: 1503 9433 72 / 978 1503 9433 77 | Publisher: Lake Union Publishing, Amazon
Happily the author at the end of his preface is careful to point out that this “is not a work of narrative nonfiction, but a novel of biographical and historical fiction that hews closely to what happened to Pino between June 1934 and May 1945.” Indeed, it was especially helpful to read that before I was poised over the 'selection of genre' button on registering this.
Leading up to that statement the author makes clear the efforts he made at original research as well as consulting whatever records are extant while underlining that extensive record burning leading up to the end of the conflicts offered considerable barriers to research as did what the author calls the “collective amnesia” of the Italians who’d survived. “As one old partisan fighter told me, “We were still young and wanted to forget. We wanted to put the terrible things we’d experienced behind us. No one talks about World War Two in Italy, so no one remembers.”
Found this, Sun 18 August 2019 – unregistered – on the Official BookCrossing Zone bookshelf in the Belmont Filmhouse, ABERDEEN in the downstairs Kino Cinema. I figured I knew of a keen audience for it straight away so snapped it up. Thrilled to confirm interest with said other reader – Mr T in Somerset – so this was whizzed into the post ASAP before even registering it with bookcrossing.com. Now it’s arrived in Somerset, I have registered it and (((THANKS))) are due to BookCrosser Flutterbies9 for popping a numbered BC BookPlate inside the cover. ENJOY!
Leading up to that statement the author makes clear the efforts he made at original research as well as consulting whatever records are extant while underlining that extensive record burning leading up to the end of the conflicts offered considerable barriers to research as did what the author calls the “collective amnesia” of the Italians who’d survived. “As one old partisan fighter told me, “We were still young and wanted to forget. We wanted to put the terrible things we’d experienced behind us. No one talks about World War Two in Italy, so no one remembers.”
Found this, Sun 18 August 2019 – unregistered – on the Official BookCrossing Zone bookshelf in the Belmont Filmhouse, ABERDEEN in the downstairs Kino Cinema. I figured I knew of a keen audience for it straight away so snapped it up. Thrilled to confirm interest with said other reader – Mr T in Somerset – so this was whizzed into the post ASAP before even registering it with bookcrossing.com. Now it’s arrived in Somerset, I have registered it and (((THANKS))) are due to BookCrosser Flutterbies9 for popping a numbered BC BookPlate inside the cover. ENJOY!
Apologies, this book has been awaiting a labels to be completed (with a registration number). Now remedied and off to join the rest of Mr Flutterbies9's tbr of birthday books etc.
