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Originally published in the New Yorker in 1946, 'Hiroshima' is a powerful and haunting account of the atomic bombing of the Japanese city on 6th August 1945. Based on interviews with survivors...
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Originally published in the New Yorker in 1946, 'Hiroshima' is a powerful and haunting account of the atomic bombing of the Japanese city on 6th August 1945. Based on interviews with survivors, John Hersey's book stands as a testament to the atrocities of war and the devastation caused by nuclear weaponry. The bomb killed 100,000 men, women and children and was the beginning of a terrifying new episode in human history.
Written only one year after the disaster, Hersey has brought the event vividly alive with his 'beautifully harrowing' account of how six hibakusha (explosion-affected persons) dealt with the seemingly impossible situation. His writing neither condemns nor justifies the dropping of the atomic bomb, but forces you to contemplate the morality of the decision to do so. Hershey added a further chapter when, 40 years later, he returned to Hiroshima to discover how the same six men and women had struggled to cope with catastrophe and with often crippling disease. The result is a devastating picture of the long-term effects of one very small bomb. 'A vision of hell...'
| ISBN |
9780241761427
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| Format coperta |
Paperback
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| Limba |
Engleză
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| Autor |
John Hersey
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| De aceeasi editura |
Penguin
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