Hiroshima

Hiroshima

by John Hersey
Hiroshima

Hiroshima

by John Hersey

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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.

On August 6, 1945, Hiroshima was destroyed by the first atomic bomb ever dropped on a city. This book tells what happened on that day, told through the memoirs of survivors.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781388205676
Publisher: Blurb
Publication date: 05/23/2019
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 120
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.28(d)

About the Author

JOHN HERSEY was born in Tientsin, China, in 1914 and lived there until 1925, when his family returned to the United States. He studied at Yale and Cambridge, served for a time as Sinclair Lewis’s secretary, and then worked several years as a journalist. Beginning in 1947 he devoted his time mainly to writing fiction. He won the Pulitzer Prize, taught for two decades at Yale, and was president of the Authors League of America and Chancellor of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. John Hersey died in 1993.
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