Other editions of book A Bell for Adano

All of the summer and early fall of 1942 the author was attached as a Time and Life correspondent to a Navy Task Force in the Pacific during World War II. For two-weeks in October he was on Guadalcanal, where he bunked with a naval aviator, swatted mosquitoes, dodged bombs, helped to rescue wounded men under fire, and went into action with the Marines. In the early summer of '43 he was in Africa and accompanied the American Invasion Forces to Sicily. He wrote this book shortly after his return to this country.

A BELL FOR ADANO was John Hersey's first novel and won a Pulitzer Prize. It tells the story of an Italian village during WW II, liberated by American forces and then administered by them. The story fits the traditional view Americans take of themselves--tough hombres, but with hearts of gold. If this book is reminiscent of times past, it nevertheless holds up to us the ideal that our fighting men have carried with them into battle through most of the history of this nation.

1944 Avon MASS MARKET PAPERBACK, John Hersey (Hiroshima). This classic novel and winner of the Pulitzer Prize tells the story of an Italian-American major in World War II who 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. Although stituated during one of the most devastating experiences in human history, John Hersey's story speaks with unflinching patriotism and humanity. - Amazon