Author: Angelle Petta
Publisher: Warren Publishing
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Genre(s): M/M Historical, Romance
Page Count: 336
Rating: 3.5 stars out of 5
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Being a history nut, this story is right in my wheelhouse and I am intrigued by the two relatively unknown historical events Petta brings to light. As youth, Bastian and Max meet at Camp Siegfried where, yes, like-minded German-Americans sent their boys to summer camp to be indoctrinated with Hitler's plans for Germany in a pseudo-military setting. The two boys form an unlikely friendship and begin exploring their feelings for one another only to separate on the cusp of WWII - Bastian enlisting in the army and Max returning to his family's ancestral roots in Rome and studying film.
They meet up again during the war in German-occupied Rome where Bastian is intelligence gathering and Max is involved in filming La Puerta del Cielo, a movie from Italian filmmaker Vittorio De Sica that employed hundreds of Jews to save them from the Germans.
