A Bell for Adano

269, [1] pp. 8vo. Author's Pulitzer Prize winning second novel, which inspired the Broadway play starring Fredric March and several other adaptations. Jacket design by George Salter. "A Bell for Adano is a 1944 novel by John Hersey, the winner of the 1945 Pulitzer Prize for the Novel. It tells the story of an Italian-American officer in Sicily during World War II who wins the respect and admiration of the people of the town of Adano by helping them find a replacement for the town bell that the Fascists had melted down for rifle barrels."