Major Joppolo and his men are assigned to restore order to the war-torn Italian town of Adano. He has to manage getting supplies into town without interfering with troop movements, all the while ...
A BELL FOR ADANO—John Hersey— Knopf ($2.50). This is a first novel. Angry and intense, it is half sharp-eyed, unsparing war reporting and half fast-moving, self-consciously hard-boiled fiction. It is ...
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Major Joppolo, the Amgot officer in charge of the seacoast town of Adano, is Hersey’s symbol of what is best in American character and perhaps in humankind. His one effort is to make the people ...
John Hersey's story of an American major's administration of a town in Sicily, and his attempts to return it to its peaceful prewar status, has not been tampered with or elaborated upon. The film ...