Hiroshima

john hersey

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).

Genres historynonfictionwarjapanclassicsworld war iihistoricaljournalismasiaschool

0 pages, Audio Cassette

First published January 1,1946

Places

hiroshima, japan,

This edition

Format: 0 pages, Audio Cassette
Published: September 1, 1988 by Amer Audio Prose Library Inc
ISBN: 9781556442926
ASIN: 1556442920
Language: English

About the author

john hersey

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.