
Beneath a Scarlet Sky
A Novel
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Narrated by:
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Will Damron
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By:
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Mark Sullivan
Soon to be a major television event from Pascal Pictures, starring Tom Holland.
Based on the true story of a forgotten hero, the USA Today and #1 Amazon Charts bestseller 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 move they think will keep him out of combat. But after Pino is injured, he is recruited at the tender age of eighteen to become the personal driver for 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.
Fans of All the Light We Cannot See, The Nightingale, and Unbroken will enjoy this riveting saga of history, suspense, and love.
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Absolute best WW II book I ever read
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Great story, mediocre reader
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absolutely amazing story.
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a riveting and hard to hear story.
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Interesting story but needed a better editor.
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It took me about an hour to really understand where the story was going, the important characters, themes, etc. (About 70 pages in the book.) The synopsis did not appeal to me, but let me just say it does not do the book justice.
The story is fascinating, gripping, and keeps you hooked. I finished this book in a day because I could not stop.
I am amazed this story is not more widely known and I love that the author shared it with us!
Great for listeners who love anything with WWII.
I have shared it with many people!
Beautiful Historical Fiction
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It is a story of the 17-year-old Pino Lella who becomes a Partisan fighter of sorts. Ordered by his parents (wonderful and strong in their own right) to a Catholic boys school in the Italian Alps to escape the escalating Allied bombing of Milan, Lella is recruited by the Priest to guide Jews fleeing through the perilous Alps in to Switzerland. Through highway robberies, Nazi patrols, vertigo inducing snow covered rock climbs, leading frightened families with small children through avalanches and impossible passes, that story alone is enough. But then, by chance and circumstance, he becomes a high level spy driving for the highest placed German General in Italy. It is an unforgettable and mind boggling World War II adventure story for sure.
In truth it is that and so much more. It is the story of a boy going from 17 to 90-years old and the people that surround him. It is a breathtaking story of violence that 17-year-old boys (and his 15-year-old brother) should be shielded from by adults. Instead, it was inflicted upon them by Nazi's and they were pressed into service by family and circumstances that could not shield them from horrors. It is a story of enduring love and forgotten hatreds.
As a bonus, there is a story within the story which is the authors own life and his interaction with the now old and well worn Pino Lella.
Artfully written, perfectly narrated by Will Damron (enough can not be said about his work here) and a true life story that you can not help but visualize as you read or listen to it, make this an ABSOLUTE MUST HAVE book. I am not sure I have a more favorite story than this.
Unimaginable heroism and perfect story telling
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Wow.
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Excellent story but
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Gripping account of the last years of fascist Italy
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