Hiroshima

JohnHersey

ISBN 10: 0812415825 ISBN 13: 9780812415827

Publisher: Perfection Learning, 1989

Synopsis

On August 6, 1945, Hiroshima was destroyed by the first atomic bomb ever dropped on a city. This book tells what happened on that day, told through the memoirs of survivors.

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Review:

'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

From the Back Cover:

'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.'

About this edition

• Publisher: Perfection Learning
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0812415825
• ISBN 13: 9780812415827
• Binding: Library Binding