Hiroshima
By: John Hersey.
Edition: 1st Vintage Books ed.
Publisher: Vintage Books
Published: 1989
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 152
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 -- Japan -- Hiroshima-shi.; Atomic bomb -- Blast effect.; Hiroshima-shi (Japan) -- History -- Bombardment, 1945.
Description: 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" (The New York Times). 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.
Notes: "A new edition with a final chapter written forty years after the explosion."
Reprint. Originally published: New York : A.A. Knopf, 1985.