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It is a novel based on a true story. I think that is clear and not misleading.
I am allowing your comment to stand. And feel free to post your own answer to the question posed. I am currently working on a similar project and there is a dilemma when all the facts are not present of how one fills in the story gaps. I think the way the author expressed it by publishing Pino’s story as a novel is perfectly viable and I do not feel in any way deceived or misled.
Soooo since you seem to be claiming the expert on Pino Lella, who I am assuming you haven't met, and a book you didn't write. What exactly are all the falsehoods in the book. Leyer's was "miscast" (so who was he actually with oh expert one?) and what else? You keep saying it's almost all fake but you aren't saying what's fake or giving your evidence to proof that.
A blanket response that gave me no direct information. I saw a lot of trolling comments on lots of people's questions and reviews from you that didn't really say anything. I even read your review that more or less didn't say anything. I came to the question section and asked questions you didn't give an answer to those questions only told me to go back where I already came from. You make accusations but won't give actual scholarly articles to support those accusations or direct examples of what all is false. I am curious about you. This is one of two books that you have reviewed in five years and when you look at your updates it is almost nothing but you harassing this book and other's people's reviews of it. You seem quite consumed by it. I am talking to you directly to figure out why with straightforward answers this time I hope.
I found many gaps, contradictions, and made up details too.
Update...
For more information on recent developments that definitively establish it is fair to categorize the book as a literary fraud and hoax, start with comments in Philip's top default review, the recent comments to Mike Lella's answer to ''Is Pino still living...'' question in the Q&A section on the book page, as well as my review and discussion comments at https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Most recent developments:
Report issued to establish author knew in 2009 that he was miscasting Leyers:
https://forum.axishistory.com/viewtop...
Article written by Franco Isman, who lived at Cases Alpina from Sep-Oct 1943 through April 1945, says the Lellas were not there *and* just recently discovered that a picture of him from a 2003 article of his about the experience was misappropriated by someone and used by the author of the book in his book presentations, falsely captioned as "Mimmo Lella, spring 1944, Casa Alpina".
https://arengario.net/misc/misc258ENb...
Archived versions of Franco's 2003 and 2008 articles in which you will see the picture (English version in the works, for those without browsers that will do a half-way decent job of auto-translation):
https://web.archive.org/web/200306110...
Archived version of Franco's article from 2008, in which you can also see the picture (English version in the works):
https://web.archive.org/web/200804011...
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It is a novel based on a true story. I think that is clear and not misleading.
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I am allowing your comment to stand. And feel free to post your own answer to the question posed. I am currently working on a similar project and there is a dilemma when all the facts are not present of how one fills in the story gaps. I think the way the author expressed it by publishing Pino’s story as a novel is perfectly viable and I do not feel in any way deceived or misled.
Soooo since you seem to be claiming the expert on Pino Lella, who I am assuming you haven't met, and a book you didn't write. What exactly are all the falsehoods in the book. Leyer's was "miscast" (so who was he actually with oh expert one?) and what else? You keep saying it's almost all fake but you aren't saying what's fake or giving your evidence to proof that.
A blanket response that gave me no direct information. I saw a lot of trolling comments on lots of people's questions and reviews from you that didn't really say anything. I even read your review that more or less didn't say anything. I came to the question section and asked questions you didn't give an answer to those questions only told me to go back where I already came from. You make accusations but won't give actual scholarly articles to support those accusations or direct examples of what all is false. I am curious about you. This is one of two books that you have reviewed in five years and when you look at your updates it is almost nothing but you harassing this book and other's people's reviews of it. You seem quite consumed by it. I am talking to you directly to figure out why with straightforward answers this time I hope.
I found many gaps, contradictions, and made up details too.
Update...For more information on recent developments that definitively establish it is fair to categorize the book as a literary fraud and hoax, start with comments in Philip's top default review, the recent comments to Mike Lella's answer to ''Is Pino still living...'' question in the Q&A section on the book page, as well as my review and discussion comments at https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Most recent developments:
Report issued to establish author knew in 2009 that he was miscasting Leyers:
https://forum.axishistory.com/viewtop...
Article written by Franco Isman, who lived at Cases Alpina from Sep-Oct 1943 through April 1945, says the Lellas were not there *and* just recently discovered that a picture of him from a 2003 article of his about the experience was misappropriated by someone and used by the author of the book in his book presentations, falsely captioned as "Mimmo Lella, spring 1944, Casa Alpina".
https://arengario.net/misc/misc258ENb...
Archived versions of Franco's 2003 and 2008 articles in which you will see the picture (English version in the works, for those without browsers that will do a half-way decent job of auto-translation):
https://web.archive.org/web/200306110...
Archived version of Franco's article from 2008, in which you can also see the picture (English version in the works):
https://web.archive.org/web/200804011...
