Binding: Paperback
Description: Hiroshima is the story of six people a clerk a widowed seamstress a physician a Methodist minister a young surgeon and a German Catholic priest who lived through the greatest single manmade disaster in history. In vivid and indelible prose Pulitzer Prize winner John Hersey traces the stories of these half - dozen individuals from 8:15 a. m. on August 6, 1945, when Hiroshima was destroyed by the first atomic bomb ever dropped on a city through the hours and days that followed. Almost four decades after the original publication of this celebrated book Hersey went back to Hiroshima in search of the people whose stories he had told and his account of what he discovered is now the eloquent and moving final chapter of Hiroshima.
Title: Hiroshima
Author(s): Hersey John
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Barcode: 9780593082362
Language: English
Publication Date: 6/23/2020