Soldier From the Sky, Book Two: Italia Mia

Soldier From the Sky
A Twice-Told Warriors’ Tale
World War II. Nick Mancuso, a Brooklyn-born, deadeye gunner on a B-24 bomber is severely wounded in aerial combat, bails out over the wintry Apennines and loses consciousness while still in his parachute, his last thoughts on his lover, Theresa.
He awakens displaced in time, under the care of Italian partisans. By ancient magic and force of fate he’s become his own medieval ancestor and leader of a peasant rebellion in collusion with the tyrant's dangerously enchanting daughter.
To return to Theresa and parallel existence Nick must fight for his life in a world of hidden treasure, superstition, star-crossed love, intrigue, brutality and betrayal, and show fierce bravery in an epic battle for gold, glory and survival in 14th Century Italy.

Book Two: Italia Mia
It's 1943, Brooklyn. Nick Mancuso is a emerging wise guy. He has a gold flake in his right eye, a reputation for fast fists, a wish for sleek clothes and the high life. He's just out of high school and recently fallen in love with neighborhood girl Theresa. He joins the Air Corps as a gunner, is quickly singled out for hyperacute, deadly aim and picks up the nickname 'Flash'. He learns the betting odds are against survival and, before flying out on a B-24 bomber, roughly breaks it off with Theresa, leaving her tearful, and telling her not to look back.
Nick is assigned to a crew on the 'Bobbie Jean', sent to an airbase in the heel of Italy, and is soon shooting Nazis out of his ancestral skies, happy to do so, with cold-blooded smile. Aerial combat is bloodbath. When the Bobbie Jean is shot down, Nick is gut shot, and bleeding to death as the wind takes his parachute toward the wintry Apennines.