Books
by Mark Sullivan
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Beneath a Scarlet Sky |
After a clunky start, the story of 17 year Pino Lella's wartime courage picks up a pace and is a really enjoyable read - a fictionalised true story of epic proportions. Daydreaming of first love, music and adventure, Pino's youthful exhuberance quickly leads him into real danger in Nazi-occupied Milan. Inadvertantly, he becomes a key part of the Italian resistance, first leading Jews through rough Alpine terrain to freedom and then finding himself at the heart of the Nazi organisation.
(Rebecca Howell - bwl 101 Summer 2021) |
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