Beneath a Scarlet Sky by Mark Sullivan

This story of a family in WWII Italy is based on real people.  Pino Lella is 17 in 1943 and ready to fight all the wrong minded forces controlling his country.  His family, wanting to save him from certain death, send him into the mountains where he is able to help people escape the Mussolini / Hitler horror.  After an unusual set of events, he finds himself as the driver for one of the important Nazi figures in Italy.  But then it may be that neither of them are who they seem.  At the heart of the story is the unimaginable decisions one must make when trying to survive and make sense of a world gone horribly bizarre.  The real life connections add to the depth of the story.