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Pino Lella. Giuseppe „Pino“ Lella (* June 1 1926 in Milano) is an Italian motorist and contemporary witness of the final phase of World War II. He was the driver of General Hans Leyers and at the same time spy for the Alliance. In April 1945, he delivered Leyers to the Fifth United States Army and then became the driver of Major Frank ...
Oct 14, 2021 · Lella hated the Nazis with a fury, but reluctantly agreed, so in 1944 he joined the German army. His facility with languages — including French, English, some German and his native Italian — caught the attention of General Leyers, who was Hitler’s right-hand man in Italy, and soon Lella found himself as the Reich general’s personal driver.
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Lella hated the Nazis with a fury, but reluctantly agreed, so in 1944 he joined the German army. His facility with languages — including French, English, some German and his native Italian — caught the attention of General Leyers, who was Hitler’s right-hand man in Italy, and soon Lella found himself as the Reich general’s personal driver.
May 3, 2018 · (Editor’s Note: The picture at the top of this article, of Pino Lella and his son Michael, includes a Spiderman mask next to copies of Beneath a Scarlet Sky. Just one week before my April 12, 2018, visit with Pino on Lake Maggiore (pictured below), British actor Tom Holland, the most recent Spiderman in two major motion pictures, visited with ...
May 3, 2018 · Pino, who turned 92 in June 2018, is the subject of the terrific bestseller by Mark Sullivan, Beneath a Scarlet Sky. His son Michael tells the story here. From Left to Right: Pino Lella, Luigi Manzione, Lawrence Reed—northern Italy, April 2018.
Jan 26, 2019 · It is based on the true story of a great Italian guy, Pino Lella, who played a part in the Allies’ success in northern Italy. Pino, who is now about 90 years old is an unsung hero of World War 2. At seventeen years old, Pino and his little brother are sent to a Catholic boys camp in the Alps on the border between Italy and Switzerland because ...
Pino Lella Character Analysis. The novel’s protagonist, Pino Lella starts out as a carefree Italian youth whose main concern is finding love. One day, while walking around Milan, he meets a woman named Anna and asks her out on a date. Anna accepts but doesn’t show up. That night, the Allied forces begin bombing Milan.
