Hiroshima / John Hersey.
This "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 ... Hersey traces the stories of these half-dozen individuals from 8:15 AM on August 6,...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC,
2020.
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| Edition: | Second Vintage Books edition. |
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| Physical Description: | 196 pages ; 21 cm |
| Format: | Book |
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This "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 ... Hersey traces the stories of these half-dozen individuals from 8:15 AM 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"--Back cover. |
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| Note: | First published in The New Yorker, August 1946. "A new edition with a final chapter written forty years after the explosion." |
| Call Number: | D767.25.H6 H4 2020 |
| ISBN: | 9780593082362 0593082362 |