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Quality
I love anything that deals with the country of italy
Despite the grisly casualties in the taking of the town the whole place falls instantly in love with the american major
My words about john hersey’s a bell for adano are a tinkling triangle compared with the deep full rich town bell major joppolo ... Read More
The italians are childlike in a way that would not be tolerated in a modern book but in 1945 was probably expected as part of a... Read More
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I recommend this to anyone looking to read soemthing inspirational to life them out of the doldrums
As he meets the townspeople the one request made most often is for the return of their bell which was taken by the facists to m... Read More
Competitiveness
His attempt to return civility to an incivil world
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american, good, novel, italian and great. - Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is minimal deception involved.
- Our engine has determined that the review content quality is high and informative.
- Our engine has discovered that over 90% high quality reviews are present.
- This product had a total of 368 reviews as of our last analysis date on Dec 8 2023.
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Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I really wanted the characters to succeed and was sand when the book ended
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This is a simple story simply told of a noble american army officer doing his best to serve the citizens of a small italian town after the american defeat of the italian army in wwii
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The bad characters are melodramatically evil
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The italians are childlike in a way that would not be tolerated in a modern book but in 1945 was probably expected as part of americans collective rationalization for why the italians had sided with the germans in the second world war
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The fascists removed the 700yearold bell to melt it down for bullets leaving the town without its most prized icon
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The novel focuses on the civilians affected by the war rather than the actions on the battlefield
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Its a simple book not at all typical of a book about war
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