A bell for Adano

John Hersey First published 1944

About this book

A story about an Italian-American army officer in Sicily during World War II, who tries to help the people of the town of Adano get a new town bell after the Fascists had the old one melted down.

Subjects

  • award:pulitzer_prize=1945
  • award:pulitzer_prize=fiction
  • fiction
  • fiction, general
  • history
  • italy, fiction
  • large type books
  • pulitzer prize winner
  • world war, 1939-1945