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	A Bell For Adano (1945)
		He meets her a few times, but is awkward and embarrassed with her, and his conscience obliges him to inform her that he is a married man: she responds by telling him that she has a sweetheart who went away to fight and whom she has had no news of for some time.
		But just as the bell is being hoisted into position and a party is being held to celebrate the Major's success in bringing new freedom and prosperity to the village, word arrives that the Major has been relieved of his post for insubordination and has to report to Algiers for new duties.
		The Major bids farewell to Tina, who has recently learnt of the death of her sweetheart, and goes on his way, leaving behind an Italian village which has benefited hugely from the American presence, and whose gratitude to the Major is symbolised in a portrait of him taking pride of place in the Town Hall.
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	Hersey's Major Joppolo
		After the invasion the people of Adano are unfamiliar with idealism and have never experienced government based on right and wrong.
		Idealism is a culture shock to the people of Adano, and they respond to it with disbelief.
		Major Joppolo is an idealist and uses his views of idealism to govern the people of Adano, which ultimately leads to the dismissal of his position of authority over Adano by the American Military.
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	Amazon.ca: A Bell for Adano: Books: John Hersey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		A Bell for Adano was one of the first that I read.
		The "bell" of Adano refers his attempt to restore an historic bell to the city that it had lost during the war.
		A Bell for Adano certainly deserved its prize, and it definitely deserves to not be forgotten.
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	CalendarHome.com - John Hersey - Calendar Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		His most notable work was "Hiroshima", a story for The New Yorker about the effects of the atomic bomb dropped on that Japanese city on August 6, 1945.
		His article about the dullness of grammar school readers in a 1954 issue of Time was the inspiration for The Cat in the Hat.
		Hersey also wrote The Algiers Motel Incident, about racist killings by the police during the 12th Street Riot in Detroit, Michigan, in 1968, and A Bell for Adano, which won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1945.
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		His novel A Bell for Adano (1944, Pulitzer Prize)...
		Reflecting his experiences as a war correspondent in World War II, many of his writings are concerned with the problem of intolerance and inhumanity.
		His first novel, A Bell for Adano (1944; Pulitzer Prize), depicts the American occupation of...
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	The World War II Photo of the Day
		She was reclassified as Water Barge YW-120 on June 30, 1944 and later transferred to the Free French on November 22, 1944.
		The Bell sunk the German submarine U-375 in the western Mediterranean northwest of Malta with depth charges on July 30, 1943.
		It is reported that the ship's bell from the Bell was installed in a local church tower, perhaps inspiring John Hersey's story of WW II Italy, A Bell for Adano.
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	A Bell for Adano (1945) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Major Joppolo and his men are assigned to restore order to the war-torn Italian town of Adano.
		Crew or equipment visible: When Tina crosses her room to open the door to Victor late at night, she carries an oil lamp.
		Remade as A Bell for Adano (1967) (TV) more
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	Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
		But what is needed is more than efficiency: The bell, which for centuries symbolized the town's moral well-being, has been carried off and a new one must be found.
		The Major realizes there are human elements that are not in his orders, and his ability to understand these makes his work a success.
		Even though he will doubtless be broken for his offense, the new bell is at last installed.
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		Major Victor Joppolo, an American army officer of Italian descent, is part of the Allied military government ruling the town of Adano.
		In his attempts to reform the town and bring democracy to the people by treating them with respect and decency, Joppolo comes into conflict with his commanding officer, a hard-nosed general who eventually has Joppolo transferred because of his refusal to follow orders.
		Joppolo's concern for the town is epitomized by his efforts to replace a bell that the fascists had melted down to use for ammunition.
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	John Hersey Biography and Summary
		His first novel, A Bell for Adano (1944), had won a Pulitzer Prize in 1945, while his journalistic masterpiece of 1946, Hiroshima, with its successful depiction of...
		His first novel, A Bell for Adano (1944), had won a Pulitzer Prize in 1945, while his journalistic masterpiece of 1946, Hiroshima, with its successful depiction of indi...
		Though his first novel, A Bell for Adano (1944), and a nonfiction account of atomic-bomb victims, Hiroshima (1946), had identified Hersey as both a popu...
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	After Victory \| TIME
		But slowly, in spite of General Marvin, Italian apathy, and bureaucratic red tape, Adano was cleaned up, the houses repainted, the people fed, the Italian prisoners returned to their homes.
		His requisition for a bell for Adano struck headquarters as another sign of his failing mind.
		The mood of A Bell for Adano is bitter.
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	CliffsNotes::Hiroshima:Book Summary and Study Guide
		When he wrote A Bell for Adano the year before, he shaped it as a fictional story but loosely based the characters on people he really knew.
		There was no question of its fictional nature; even the bell of the title was a figment of Hersey’s imagination.
		In the fictional A Bell for Adano, Hersey used an ordinary man of Italian heritage for the hero of his story.
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	A Bell for Adano \| MTV MOVIES
		Director Henry King's adaptation of John Hersey's novel is a faithful telling of the story of Major Joppolo (John Hodiak), who is assigned to administrate the Sicilian town of Adano after World War II and attempts to return it to its pre-war tranquility.
		His initial actions include feeding and clothing the villagers, who have been left starved and destitute by the ravages of the war, and preventing the hanging of its former mayor, a Mussolini supporter, although he makes clear that any hints of Fascism will not be tolerated.
		A Bell For Adano is a low-key look at the effects of war that builds to a quietly powerful conclusion.
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	YAM October 1993 - John Hersey Tribute
		The author of 25 books, including A Bell for Adano, Hiroshima, and The Wall, and numerous articles for the New Yorker and other magazines, Hersey won the Pulitzer Prize and set a daunting standard for moral concern delivered with high literary grace.
		At a deeper level he was shaping all the while a series of books which appeared in dazzling succession -- Men on Bataan, Into the Valley, A Bell for Adano (which won a Pulitzer Prize and was made into a popular Broadway play and film), and in 1946 the triumphant Hiroshima.
		By the war's end, Hersey had found his place as a great reporter and, with the acclaim for The Bell, a successful novelist.
	www.yalealumnimagazine.com /issues/93_10/hersey.html (2008 words)

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	Amazon.co.uk: A Bell for Adano: Books: John Hersey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		But a very odd thing happened that rarely happens now, i simply got hooked to this book..the way Joppolo commited himself to getting a new bell for Adano, that commitment and his freindlyness w/ the villagers.
		Although i must say that teh story line was a bit of a let down.
		I don't mean that harshly, it's just my personal feeling about it; I still gladly recommend the book to anyone looking for an enjoyable and worthwhile book.
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	John Hersey at AllExperts
		His article about the dullness of grammar school readers in a 1954 issue of Time was the inspiration for The Cat in the Hat.
		Hersey also wrote The Algiers Motel Incident, about racist killings by the police during the 12th Street Riot in Detroit, Michigan, in 1968, and A Bell for Adano, which won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1945.
		Hersey is also known for his pseudo-chronicle, The Single Pebble about a young American engineer traversing upstream Yangtze.
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	Overstock.com: A Bell for Adano : Books
		I would say that the fiction form of `A Bell for Adano` is fictitious.
		In fact, `A Bell for Adano` might accurately be described as the Platonic ideal of Americanism, of which the American reality is an active approximation....There is very little writing talent in `A Bell for Adano,` just by the way."
		"`A Bell for Adano` makes very good reading in its capable and wholly unpretentious fashion....To demand that it be a soundly constructed novel as well would be asking too much."
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	A Bell For Adano Trailer, Reviews and Schedule for A Bell For Adano \| TVGuide.com
		At the end of WW II, Hodiak is a tough Army major who is given the job of reestablishing civil administration in Adano, a small Italian town.
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	BrothersJudd.com - Review of John Hersey's A Bell for Adano (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		His job is complicated by the basic distrust of the thoroughly jaded townspeople, the labyrinthine Army bureaucracy and one particularly bull-headed American General.
		The Major gradually succeeds in winning over the townspeople even as he becomes obsessed with the effort to replace the 700 year old town bell that the Fascists melted down for bullets.
		His final success comes at a great personal cost, but he leaves the town of Adano a significantly better place than he found it.
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	A Bell for Adamo Social Concerns
		In A Bell for Adano he shows the effects of an invasion on the peasant population of Sicily.
		Sicily had seen a number of invasions, but these invaders were American and British, quite different from those of the past who had come from other parts of the Mediterranean.
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	A Bell for Adano Study Guide by John Hersey
		A Bell for Adano Short Guide consists of approx.
		Each guide is written by a subject expert, professional educator, or scholar of the work.
		A Bell for Adano from Beacham's Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction and Beacham's Guide to Literature for Young Adults.
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	CSU Stanislaus: PADM 5654 Bureaucracy in Novel & Play - Giventer
		Read and discuss A Bell for Adano and Playing With Fire.
		We will view the film A Bell for Adano.
		Submit a paper comparing and contrasting the administrative worlds of Victor Joppolo (A Bell for Adano) and Ben Cromarty (Playing With Fire).
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	Collectors Post - Browse Theatre, Cinema and TV
		A BELL FOR ADANO (by Paul Osborn) with Fredric March
		This sentimental war-time drama is about an Italian-American major (played by March) who is sent to Adano to run the Allied Military Government.
		His sympathies divided, he falls foul of his commander and is moved on but not before he gets the villagers a new church bell.
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	A Bell for Adano is available from Bestprices.com Books!
		AT: Major Jappolo and his troops try to govern justly the town of Adano in allied-occupied Italy during World War II.
		Description: An Italian-American major in World War II wins the love and admiration of the local townspeople when he searches for a replacement for the 700 year-old town bell that had been melted down for bullets by the fascists.
		Description: Presiding over the small Sicilian village of Adano during World War II, an Italian-American major wins the love and admiration of the natives when he searches for a replacement for the 700-year-old town bell that had been melted down for bullets by the Fascists.
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	Book Club for Kids @ nationalgeographic.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Adano, a small town in Sicily, finds itself under Allied control during World War II.
		Major Victor Joppolo, an Italian-American major is put in charge of Adano, and he must find a way to repair Adano’s economy as well as its spirit.
		How can a bell mean so much to a town?
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