![]() ![]() ![]() I’ve found that some people are just magnets for that, and Pino certainly was. ![]() Pino is one of those people who continually gets drawn into extraordinary events and meets prominent historical people. Pino was one of them until Sullivan heard his tale, by chance, and followed it through with research trips and several interviews with Pino himself. As Sullivan notes in the novel’s intro, many veterans refrain from speaking about their war time experience as a way to move forward and heal, however, many heroes have also gone unnoticed because of this. Despite that fact, Pino’s unbelievable story went untold for nearly 70 years. Pino comes of age against the disturbing back drop of war, which drastically shapes the rest of his life. This novel is very much a coming of age story as it is a story of WWII. Beneath a Scarlet Sky by Mark Sullivan tells the amazing true story of an 18-year-old Italian boy named Pino Lella. ![]()
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