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Hiroshima by John Hersey

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Book name: Hiroshima (2024)
Category: History
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Pages: 152 pages
ISBN13: 0679721037
ISBN: 0679721037
Language: English
Publication data: March 4, 1989, 8 a.m.
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).

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John Hersey

John Hersey

2 books

John Richard Hersey, a Pulitzer Prize-winning American writer, earliest practiced the "new journalism," which fuses storytelling devices of the novel with nonfiction reportage. A 36-member panel under the aegis of journalism department of New York University adjudged account of Hersey of the aftermath of the atomic bomb, dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, as the finest piece of journalism of the 20th century. Read more