Hiroshima - Softcover

Hersey, John

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Softcover

ISBN 10: 0553260588 ISBN 13: 9780553260588

Publisher: Bantam Books, 1986

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The experiences of two women and four men who survived the bombing of Hiroshima serve to document the incredible events that followed the sudden destruction of a city

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'To this day nothing tells better the horror of Hiroshima ... One of the most powerful writers of modern times' Washington Post 'A vision of hell ... its terrible images are reminiscent of Dante's Inferno' The Times

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'The room was filled with a blinding light. She was paralysed by fear, fixed still in her chair for a long moment. Everything fell. The ceiling dropped suddenly and the wooden floor above collapsed in splinters and the people up there came down and the roof above them gave way; but, principally and first of all, the bookcases right behind her swooped forward and the contents threw her down, with her left leg horribly twisted and breaking beneath her. There, in the tin factory, in the first moment of the atomic age, a human being was crushed by books.'

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