Adano

Hersey got into scrap after scrap: the model for the good officer in "Adano" sued him (he dropped it after dining with Hersey); Hersey was an early opponent of the Vietnam War; in 1976, The Saturday Review (perhaps with an eye on advertisers) balked at running his attack on big business, - in 1988 he was attacked for a New Yorker piece that borrowed without credit from a James Agee biography.

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Bedrock ': Like many American writers, Hersey peaked early: he wrote "Adano," "Hiroshima" and "The Wall," a novel of the Warsaw ghetto, before he was 37.

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I'm instantly pulled back to the sweeping countryside of Bavaria and the beautiful old buldings:) A bell for Adano, a book about WWII and the allies occupation of a small Italian village called Adano that revolves around this bell that was taken from them by Mussolini.

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Morgan's film credits were similarly extensive, going all the way back to 1943's The Ox-Bow Incident and 1945's A Bell for Adano.

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A Bell for Adano (1945) by John Hersey – (1945) (Lux Video Theatre 1955)

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Reading the latest dispatch about American troops greeting the people in unremarkable towns and on numbered hills without names in Bosnia, I was reminded of John Hersey's idealistic 1944 novel, "A Bell for Adano," which fictionalized his keen observations as a correspondent in wartime Italy.

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To be sure, the sentimental Italian-American army major from the Bronx got his fictional Adano a new church bell by hook and crook and endeared himself to the townspeople.

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His Pulitzer Prizewinning first novel, "A Bell for Adano" (1944), with its megalomaniac American general, was startlingly subversive for a wartime work; "Hiroshima" 's account of innocent civilians in a nuclear firestorm undercut postwar moral complacency.

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“A Bell for Adano” Boston Pops did come first but that was just an accidental meeting

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“A Bell for Adano” Boston Pops did come first but that was just an accidental meeting

Isabel’s Bed Elinor Lipman 1995