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Beneath a Scarlet Sky
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Will Damron
- Length: 17 hrs and 43 mins
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Publisher's Summary
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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Overall4 out of 5 stars
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- Frank
- 2018-10-20
Great insight into the Italian Front
I really enjoyed learning about the unique characteristics of the war in Italy and the various factions of partisans, faceiots and allies.
Really interesting life insights as well
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- Dean O 1965
- 2019-12-16
Can’t wait for the movie !
This was a great story. It held my attention from the first sentence to the last. Very interesting history and enough action and romance to keep a wide variety of people interested. All made better by the fact that it’s based on a real person’s life.
1 person found this helpful
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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- Melissa Beilschmidt
- 2019-12-11
Best story I have ever heard
This might just be my favourite book. I don't often think about the holocaust or WWII, but it is crazy to think that this story took place just 45 years before I was born. The amount of atrocities the main character had to witness at such a young age, it is mind boggling. I kept thinking the story was almost over, and then another set of events would happen and I would again think- how much can one person possible endure. I'm going to be thinking about this book for a long time. I highly recommend it to everyone.
1 person found this helpful
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- Sally
- 2019-11-01
OUTSTANDING!
I couldn't stop listening.
Heartbreaking, fascinating, appalling.
This is a MUST READ.
Very much looking forward to the movie.
1 person found this helpful
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- Philippe Laporta
- 2022-08-11
Refreshing & captivating
A captivating story written with an emotionally charged pen. It’s amazing to think that this is a true story but it certainly allows us to relive it
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- Geoff Woodfied
- 2022-06-24
Too much life for one so young. Epic
one of the best books I have ever read. uplifting, tragic and a lesson to be grateful for each and every day.
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- Hope
- 2022-05-23
Speechless
From start to finish I was riveted. I would highly recommend this book. I have heard few stories from Italy in WW2, This story broke my heart and taught me so much about the beauty of life in the most difficult circumstances. Bravo.
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- Anonymous User
- 2022-02-07
Great Novel
Story is great. I love stories based on true life.
Excited to hear next page, than next ...until the end.
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- PCR
- 2022-02-05
Heartbreaking Story of one man's war
Based upon a true story of WWII in Milan. Riveting and engaging. Thank you for writing it!
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- Anonymous User
- 2022-01-06
Incredible!
An amazing story and an amazing man! Brilliantly told and narrated. Couldn’t have been better. A must read! You will love it!
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- Chip Atkinson
- 2017-08-07
The Best Thing? It Really Happened!
Rarely in life do we learn of unknown men and women who lived extraordinary lives far bigger than any Hollywood creation. Pino Lella is such a man. This story is based on actual, documented events in WW2 a 17 -18 year old Pino experienced.
We are introduced to Pino in the last two years of WW2. As the author points out, little is written in fiction or non-fiction about the virtual German occupation of Italy. Politically the two countries were considered allies, but in reality it was the German Army controlling Itialian forces as well as political policies. Mussolini was under house arrest by 1944-45, guarded by Germans. The country may have looked Fascist to the world, but its peoples were deeply divided politically between Fascist, Nazi, Communist and Democratic Populists.
Pino was and remains an upbeat, confident and humble man. Like most people who lived and fought in WW2, he reluctantly shared his story after over 50 years silence. In the two years he was active, he led jewish families to Sweden, joined the Nazi army as a spy, and was the driver for the highest ranking General in Italy. He served as the General's interpreter to Mussolini, and actually met him on numerous occasions. Keep in mind Pino was 18 when war ended.
The story is as complicated as Italy's politics were at the time. In under two years, Lella falls in love, becomes a hero by risking his life to save several Jewish families, joins the German Army to be a spy, is forsaken as a traitor to his friends and family and suffers tremendous loss through it all.
The writing and narration is eloquent and seemless. This is one of the best books Audible has to offer.
429 people found this helpful
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- Bryan
- 2017-05-10
History as good as fiction
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I'm a daily listener to audiobooks while I commute. This book was SO good at captivating me and making mental images that it was almost too distracting to my driving!So in short, I dont write many reviews, but I LOVED this book...the story was great, the narrator was top-flight with excellent charachter portrayals, and the slice of life & time during WWII in N Italy satisfied the history buff in me. It really was as good or better than alot of fiction, but it was all true!
252 people found this helpful
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- Jeannie
- 2017-06-01
Wow! This is a 10 star story!!!
This is one of the best books I've read or listened to, ever!!! I'm so thankful that such a gifted, talented writer took the time over 10 years to listen to and research this man's recounting of his life in Milan during World War II. Please take the time to read or listen to this book, in order to appreciate the heroism and sacrifice of this young man during the war. It makes me very sad, to think that without the persistence of this author, Pino could have died and his story never told! You'll never forget this book. Also, the narrator was the best!!!
140 people found this helpful
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
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- Linda
- 2017-06-18
Great idea, some weak spots, OK overall
What made the experience of listening to Beneath a Scarlet Sky the most enjoyable?
This was an amazing story. The book lapsed into trite sentimentality several times with invented conversations in an attempt to flesh out the facts of the story and make it more believable. NOT NECESSARY! This book went in wild swings from amazing with the actual true story to deep lows when the author tried to invent conversations and add personal romance and drama. Again, NOT NECESSARY and those invented moments became a bit of "you have to be kidding me" moments in an otherwise outstanding true story. The true facts were amazing.....the invented fictional parts were completely weak.
Have you listened to any of Will Damron’s other performances before? How does this one compare?
Wonderful narrator. Would be delighted to listen to other books by him.
82 people found this helpful
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- B.J.
- 2017-08-07
Umm ... okay if you don't take it seriously
While listening, I kept flashing on Forrest Gump. While the book summary says "based on the true story of ..." I really question the baseline honesty. I accept when you're dealing with historical situations, there will be an element of fiction with invented dialogue, etc. But the whole thing just felt preposterous to me. The number of coincidences just rang false. When it comes to WWII, I prefer stories that are either clearly biographical or clearly fiction without blurred lines.
I know I'm clearly in the minority here. It just hit me wrong.
71 people found this helpful
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- Kristin Sanders
- 2017-05-31
Amazing read
Truly remarkable. One of the best told WWII novels I've read/listened to. I felt like I could feel Pino's feelings throughout the entire story.
54 people found this helpful
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- Julie Washnock
- 2017-06-01
Heartbreaking but amazing story
What did you love best about Beneath a Scarlet Sky?
The author brought history and emotion together in a way that had me captivated from the first moment.
Who was your favorite character and why?
All of them, he did a great job developing all the characters into people I cared about. Regardless of how big or small their part was in the story.
53 people found this helpful
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- Sheila-La
- 2017-05-03
Just wow. Thank you Mark Sullivan....
I rarely review, but this was such a different, human perspective of WW2 in Italy and showed so clearly, how murky options and people can be in real life. I will bear witness to Pino's story, and remember he and Anna always..great narration too.
52 people found this helpful
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- Mary
- 2017-07-28
Could not finish it
I wanted to like this book, the story sounded good and the historical content appealed.... but I found the writing juvenile (syntax was so inappropriate for 1940s Italy..teenage boys saying "that is nasty"? A real turn off), and the narrator added to what I found a young reader context with his voice and intonations. Sorry Audible, a bust for me.
51 people found this helpful
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- ❤️Cyndi Marie❤️🎧Audiobook Addicts🎧
- 2018-11-11
✫✫ 4 Stars ✫✫
Personally I found this story engaging and heartbreaking. I am not a history buff so this is just my feelings on a fictional story not the facts or if they are correct. The author explains in the beginning that while this is a story about a real man, he was unable to get all the facts so he filled them in and that is why this is fiction. For me, even the idea that 1/2 this book could be true breaks my heart. Pino's story is extraordinary to say the least. What I liked the most about this story is that it didn't end with the war, the author continues to tell us what happened with most of the main characters until their deaths, so I am not left with any questions.
I enjoyed the narrator very much, even if he didn't do accents but I think that is what I enjoyed. All too often narrators who add accents actually ruin the story for me unless the accent is believable so I would rather have no accents then have bad accents.
#HistoricalFiction #WWI #Tagsgiving #Sweepstakes
44 people found this helpful
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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- Marcos Lima
- 2022-12-12
Breathtaking
A splendid tale of love and death, about the brightest and darkest corners of the human soul.
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- Sophie
- 2019-03-02
Dramatic, inspiring and heartbreaking story.
This story is inspiring. I am in awe of Pino Lella's courage. A little starstruck too. I can't help but wonder how I would have acted if I had been in his shoes. This is a powerful true story that I encourage everyone to read or listen to. We have a duty to remember. High praise to Will Damon as his interpretation was stellar! He really brought the story to life!
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- Cheerioh
- 2018-10-07
Superbe histoire et très bien racontée
J'avoue être extrêmement lassée par toutes les histoires sur la seconde guerre mondiale. Mais là ça vaut tout de même le coup. On nous raconte l'histoire du jeune Pino Lalla et des Juifs qu'il a sauvés pendant la guerre et de son implication dans les derniers instants de la libération. Et c'est une histoire vraie romancée car ce jeune homme a eu une longue vie après ces événements.
Sans avoir été impliqué dans les moments les plus importants, son histoire est tellement bien écrite, narrée et ce jeune homme est si sympathique, lui et toute sa famille. C'est un homme ordinaire confronté à des situations peu ordinaires. Je comprends clairement le succès du roman et je pense que le fait que ce soit une histoire vraie est ce qui le rend profondément touchant depuis le départ de Milan, le travail à la Casa Lapina, son travail au service d'un général allemand. La violence est bien présente mais jamais utilisée pour attirer le chaland.