Beneath a scarlet sky : a novel /
Sullivan, Mark
Beneath a scarlet sky : a novel / Mark Sullivan. - Seattle : Lake Union Publishing, 2017. - 447 pages : illustration, map ; 24 cm
Map on endpages. Includes Reading group guide (pages [441]-447).
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.
9781503943377 (pbk.)
Lella, Giuseppe, 1926- --Fiction.
Lella, Giuseppe, 1926- --Fiction.
German Occupation of Italy (1943-1945)
World War (1939-1945)
1933-1945
World War, 1939-1945--Italy--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Italy--Fiction.
Italy--History--German occupation, 1943-1945--Fiction.
Germany--History--1933-1945--Fiction.
Italy--History--German occupation, 1943-1945--Fiction.
Germany--History--Fiction.--1933-1945
Germany.
Italy.
Historical fiction.
Biographical fiction.
War fiction.
Biographical fiction.
Fiction.
Historical fiction.
History.
War fiction.
Historical fiction.
Biographical fiction.
War fiction.
813.54 / SU-B
Beneath a scarlet sky : a novel / Mark Sullivan. - Seattle : Lake Union Publishing, 2017. - 447 pages : illustration, map ; 24 cm
Map on endpages. Includes Reading group guide (pages [441]-447).
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.
9781503943377 (pbk.)
Lella, Giuseppe, 1926- --Fiction.
Lella, Giuseppe, 1926- --Fiction.
German Occupation of Italy (1943-1945)
World War (1939-1945)
1933-1945
World War, 1939-1945--Italy--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Italy--Fiction.
Italy--History--German occupation, 1943-1945--Fiction.
Germany--History--1933-1945--Fiction.
Italy--History--German occupation, 1943-1945--Fiction.
Germany--History--Fiction.--1933-1945
Germany.
Italy.
Historical fiction.
Biographical fiction.
War fiction.
Biographical fiction.
Fiction.
Historical fiction.
History.
War fiction.
Historical fiction.
Biographical fiction.
War fiction.
813.54 / SU-B