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SUMMARY:Adano: Sicily\, occupation literature and the American century - P
 rofessor Robert Gordon (MML &amp\; Gonville and Caius\, University of Camb
 ridge) 
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CONTACT:Dr Rachel E. Holmes
DESCRIPTION:The Allied occupation of Sicily of July 1943 was the first suc
 h occupation in wartime Europe and within a matter of months it had produc
 ed the first bestselling work of occupation literature\, John Hersey's A B
 ell for Adano (1944). This talks looks at the background to the occupation
  and Hersey's book to ask questions about the nature of the occupation\, i
 ts literature and American ideals for the future of Italy and European dem
 ocracy.
LOCATION:Gatsby Room\, Wolfson College
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