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Apr 27, 2021 · That Pino and Mimo Lella did not live at Casa Alpina as the book claims they were. Isman has no memory of them. Neither boy appears in any of the photos Isman has of the years at Casa Alpina. That Mark Sullivan used a picture of Franco Isman as Mimo Lello. That Mark Sullivan’s portrayal of Casa Alpina was not accurate.
Nov 28, 2018 · All the while trying to get a commitment out of Pino’s daughter for me to come and take a portrait of Pino. The family was guarding him not only due to his age but also because of legal concerns since a movie adaptation of Pino’s story was underway. The day before the last available window I finally secured my chance to meet Pino through ...
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Lella grew up in Milanand when the first bombs fell there in 1943, his parents sent him safely to the Alps for Father Re's summer school, where he learned to drive. In June 1944, Lella turned 18, the age when Italians were drafted by the state into military service. He had two options: he could join one of Mussolini's fascist armies and most likely...
Pino Lella has been accused of fabricating his account of leading Jews over the mountains to safety and his later work as a spy in order to deflect from his voluntary enlistment as a Nazi solider, with critics noting he was not a resident at Casa Alpina during the war and misstated key details about trails, the war-time location of the Swiss border...
Lella's story is the basis for Mark T. Sullivan's novel 'Beneath a scarlet sky', which generally holds to the biographical facts from Pino Lella's life between 1943 and 1945, but also consists of fiction in some parts. Because Sullivan was not able to independently corroborate key details of Lella's account, the book could not be published as non-f...
Mark T. Sullivan: Beneath a scarlet sky ,Lake Union Publishing, 2018 ISBN 9781503943377 Search this book on .
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Mimo Lella. Anna Marta is the love of Pino Lella ’s life. Pino first meets Anna by happenstance while roaming the streets of Milan. Pino asks Anna out on a date, and she accepts but fails to show up. Pino doesn’t see Anna again until he becomes a driver for General Leyers.
(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 9, 2017 · Clearly, you are passionate about Pino Lella’s story. Thank you for sharing some of it with us. BENEATH A SCARLET SKY is #1 New York Times bestseller Mark Sullivan’s riveting new tale of extraordinary courage and tragic star-crossed love during the Nazi occupation of Italy—“The Forgotten Front” of World War II.
Mar 5, 2024 · 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 ...
