Length4h 31m
About this audiobook
For Amedeo, a boy from the sun-scorched hills of Southern Italy, the sea is an escape. Trading the smell of poverty for the clean, cold scent of steel, he joins the Regia Marina and is assigned to the magnificent battleship Corazzata Littorio, the pride of Mussolini's fleet.
But the grand adventure of naval glory quickly dissolves into the brutal reality of war: the thunderous shock of Mediterranean battles, the devastating humiliation of the night raid on Taranto, and the bewildering betrayal of the armistice that turns allies into deadly foes.
Cast adrift by history, Amedeo and the rest of the crew find themselves in a surreal floating prison on the Great Bitter Lake in Egypt. Here, in a civilised internment, the war against the enemy is replaced by a more insidious battle - against heat, rust, and the slow corrosion of the human soul.
Audiobook details
GenreHistorical Fiction
Length4 hrs 31 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 3, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Dedication
11The Daily Grind
2Foreward
12Minds at Sea
3Roots in the Boot
13The School of the Lake
4The Call of the Sea
14Games and Glee
5Steel and Discipline
15Whispers from Home
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6Mediterranean Crucible
16A Community Afloat
7Taranto's Shadow
17The World Outside
8Battles and Bombs
18The Long Goodbye
9The Betrayal
19Shores of Change
10A Floating Prison
20Leaving Again
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