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• This a truly outstanding story. It can be enjoyed on many levels. Most obviously, it is wonderfully refreshing in showing American soldiers at their jobs -- winning a war and improving the lives of their former adversaries. It is also a poignantly understated love story. It is also a humorous and brilliant study in how organizations work, including the countless ways that underlings attempt to undermine "orders" from the top. It is also a true-to-life tale about the many ways an American occupation of a foreign country can go disastrously wrong, though in Adano disaster is narrowly averted over and again. The writing style is beautiful and spare. Adult themes are treated with good taste. This treatment makes them all the more powerful in the story. Not so long ago, Adano was a common fixture on school reading lists. The general lack of comments from students here on Amazon confirms my impression that schools are not teaching Adano much these days. That's a shame. Adano is a vastly better work than the politically correct tripe that so many schools dish out (a very partial list: My Brother Sam is Dead; Farewell to Manzanar; The House on Mango Street; The Bomb; The Slave Dancer). If you are home schooling, note that Adano won the Pulitzer Prize and is a proper substitute for almost any book that appears on current "recommended" lists.

• This was a gift. The person liked it, but said they enjoyed the movie more.

• Book in decent condition . Good read.

• I checked out the book from the local library and really enjoyed it, so decided that I wanted a copy for my own personal library. The problem was that I did not see that the size of the book is big and then upon inspecting it, it has the quality of a slick magazine.......As for the story - one of the best and highly recommend the book, not just the size of this particular book edition.

• A beautiful and rather sad story; the characters are very well portrayed, both Italians and Americans, making the story believable and poignant.

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