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Ciao, Amore, Ciao

Based on a Heartbreaking True Story

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Ciao, Amore, Ciao

By: Sandro Martini
Narrated by: Michael J. Downey
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In the winter of 1942, an army vanishes into the icefields of the Eastern Front.

In the summer of 1945, a massacre in small-town Italy makes international headlines.

Today, an ordinary man is about to stumble onto a horrifying secret.

Alex Lago is a jaded journalist whose family, marriage, and career are fading fast. So, when the accidental discovery of an aged photo from World War II offers him a last gasp at bonding with his dying father, Alex can't help but scratch at the scabs of a mystery seventy years in the making.

What he's about to uncover is a secret that can topple a political dynasty.

From the unhealed wounds of a post-war massacre to an army of boys forever frozen at the gates of Stalingrad, from British spies reshaping Italy's post-war future to the casual cruelty of ice-hard US Army investigators, and from the unsolved murder of a partisan hero to the most heroic, untold battle of World War II, the deceits of the past are about to propel Alex on a collision course with a deadly legacy … until a compromised, beautiful stranger promises redemption for an unimaginable price.

©2025 Black Rose Writing (P)2025 Black Rose Writing
20th Century Genre Fiction Historical Historical Fiction Mystery Thriller & Suspense War Espionage US Army
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“... a terrific read with real psychological depth beneath the hard-bitten prose.” –KIRKUS REVIEWS

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Un altra interpretazione della storia.
Dei fatti...
La lettura era meglio se fatta da un italiano, per la pronuncia di alcune parole o nomi.
Del resto molto convincente.

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J. Downey, the reader of this book, has simply and completely ruined the whole book….. I think his voice and his stance are not suitable even as a commentator of a baseball match, maybe his place is at a fish auction……
He/they have completely failed to check how ITALIAN WORDS/NAMES are pronounced, and there are obviously a lot of them….. it’s an Italian Story about something really happened in the region of Veneto just as the war ended, villages, towns, Christian names, without mentioning that many chapters’ heading is the title of a song…
Absolutely maddening to hear it mispronounced regularly like that……
I do hope the reader has found another job……

The book could be good …….

How a reader can ruin a book….

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