Hiroshima (Penguin Modern Classics)

by JohnHersey (Author)

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  Paperback
  1972

  $4.09

  When the first atom bomb was dropped on 6th August 1945, it devastated a great city and knocked Japan out of the war. John Hersey, an American writer, was sent nine months later to Hiroshima to find out, in human and not scientific terms, what had happened. His narrative, which is built round the experiences of six survivors in a city where some 100,000 men, women and children were killed, supplies an epitaph to those who died in one of history's most catastrophic events and a grave warning to the present and the future.

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  Paperback
  1990

  $11.93

• New

  Paperback
  2009

  $13.85

  When the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima in August 1945, killing 100,000 men, women and children, it was the beginning of a terrifying new episode in human history. Written only a year after the disaster, John Hersey brought the event vividly alive with this heart-rending account of six men and women who survived despite all the odds. He added a further chapter when, forty years later, he returned to Hiroshima to discover how the same six people had struggled to cope with catastrophe and with often crippling disease. The result is a devastating picture of the long-term effects of one very small bomb.