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Hiroshima

Author John Hersey
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Mass Market Paperback
$9.99 US
Knopf | Vintage
4.12"W x 6.86"H x 0.43"D  
On sale Mar 04, 1989 | 160 Pages | 9780679721031
Grades 6-12 + AP/IB
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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).

"Nothing can be said about this book that can equal what the book has to say.  It speaks for itself, and in an unforgettable way, for humanity."--The New York Times

Table of Contents

1. A Noiseless Flash

2. The Fire

3. Details Are Being Investigated

4. Panic Gras and Feverfew

5. The Aftermath
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. View titles by John Hersey
  • WINNER
    New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age
“Nothing can be said about this book that can equal what the book has to say. It speaks for itself, and in an unforgettable way, for humanity.” —The New York Times

“One of the great classics of the war.” —The New Republic

“Everyone able to read should read it.” —Saturday Review of Literature
 

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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).

"Nothing can be said about this book that can equal what the book has to say.  It speaks for itself, and in an unforgettable way, for humanity."--The New York Times

Table of Contents

1. A Noiseless Flash

2. The Fire

3. Details Are Being Investigated

4. Panic Gras and Feverfew

5. The Aftermath

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. View titles by John Hersey

Awards

  • WINNER
    New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age

Praise

“Nothing can be said about this book that can equal what the book has to say. It speaks for itself, and in an unforgettable way, for humanity.” —The New York Times

“One of the great classics of the war.” —The New Republic

“Everyone able to read should read it.” —Saturday Review of Literature
 

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