Hiroshima

Hiroshima
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Vintage
1946
eBook
152
English
April 20, 2023 April 24, 2023
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On August 6, 1945, Hiroshima was destroyed by the first atom bomb ever dropped on a city. This book, John Hersey's journalistic masterpiece, tells what happened on that day. Told through the memories of survivors, this timeless, powerful and compassionate document has become a classic "that stirs the conscience of humanity".

Almost four decades after the original publication of this celebrated book, John Hersey went back to Hiroshima in search of the people whose stories he had told. His account of what he discovered about them is now the eloquent and moving final chapter of Hiroshima.


About the book

From a few hours before the dropping of the first atomic bomb to 40 years later. What happens to 6 people who were in Hiroshima that morning.

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