Hiroshima
$22.37
- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
24 March 2002
Summary
Hiroshima: Witness to the Atomic Dawn
A landmark work of nonfiction and the definitive account of nuclear devastation. The explosion over Hiroshima of the first nuclear bomb reduced, in an instant, an entire city to rubble and killed over 100,000 men, women, and children. It also announced a new era in human history—the Atomic Age.
Written only a year after the event, John Hersey’s Hiroshima was an immediate phenomenon. Originally published in the New Yorker magazin…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141184371 |
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| ISBN-10: | 014118437X |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
| Author: | John Hersey |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 24 March 2002 |
| Weight: | 159g |
| Dimensions: | 199mm x 130mm x 13mm |
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About The Author
John Hersey
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 Clare College, Cambridge, served for a time as Sinclair Lewis’s secretary, and then worked for several years as a journalist. He published seventeen works of fiction, including the Pulitzer Prize winning A Bell for Adano. Besides Hiroshima which was first published in 1946, he wrote six books of essays and reportage. He died in 1993.
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