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...General. Hero of the book is Major Joppolo. He is patient, tenacious, understanding, humble in the sense of being willing to drudge for what he believes in, and possessed of a genuine love for Adano, the place and the people. This love is epitomized in his effort to get the people of Adano a church bell to replace the bell the Nazis carried off for scrap. Sometimes it seems that Major Joppolo is the only person who loves the villagers. Certainly he is the only one who has a practically realizable vision of what democracy can bring to Adano. Raised...
...begins when Major Victor Joppolo, 35, a senior officer of the Allied Military Government of Occupied Territory, enters the town of Adano. It ends, 266 pages and three weeks later, when he is recalled. Between these two episodes it packs: 1) a good deal of concrete information on the errors and accomplishments of the administration of the occupied village; 2) an unforgettable, sometimes sickening picture of the degradation of the Italians after 20 years of Mussolini; 3) a lopsided, bitter portrait of a loudmouthed, fire-eating, bullying U.S. general, who resembles General Patton; 4) a plot. The work...
...General ordered it shot. When his staff officers objected, thinking of the effect on the townspeople of Adano, the General damned them up & down. Then the General issued an order forbidding any carts to enter Adano. That stopped all food to the starving town. When General Marvin and Major Joppolo met, each felt an instantaneous, unrelenting mutual dislike that grew in a few moments to intense hatred. When the General discovered that Joppolo had countermanded his order and had let the food carts come into Adano, he cussed until he choked...
Bats in the Belfry? But slowly, in spite of General Marvin, Italian apathy, and bureaucratic red tape, Adano was cleaned up, the houses repainted, the people fed, the Italian prisoners returned to their homes. But for Major Joppolo the war was over. His requisition for a bell for Adano struck headquarters as another sign of his failing mind. And when General Marvin discovered that the Major was still on the job, he stopped reading Secretary Stimson's commendations long enough to fire Joppolo...