A rich, romantic novel set in post-world war II italy--steeped in military history--about young love, idealism, and the lessons of experience. - Like Louis de Bernires's Corelli's Mandolin, Gianni Riotta's charming and provocative romance explores large and small matters of love and war, shifting between the turbulence of postwar Sicily and the great battles of ancient and modern history. A major bestseller in Italy, Prince of the Clouds is a deeply moving work of fiction, imbued with rare vibrance and feeling.- A rather new lookind book with no faults that I can see.