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John Hersey is a master of capturing historical footprints and nowehere is that better seen than this devastatingly real account of a manmade catastrophe. Hiroshima is an up close and personal account of the devastation of the atomic bomb and the people affected by it.

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author John Hersey's seminal work of narrative nonfiction which has defined the way we think about nuclear warfare. “One of the great classics of the war" (The New Republic) that tells what happened in Hiroshima during World War II through the memories of the survivors of the first atomic bomb ever dropped on a city.

"The perspective [Hiroshima] offers from the bomb’s actual victims is the mandatory counterpart to any Oppenheimer viewing." —G...