Hiroshima

by John Hersey, Justinian Frisch (Translator), Alexander Pechmann (Translator)

Overview

Notes From Your Bookseller

John Hersey is a master of capturing historical footprints and nowehere is that better seen than this devastatingly real account of a manmade catastrophe. Hiroshima is an up close and personal account of the devastation of the atomic bomb and the people affected by it.

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783990271964
Publisher:	Jung und Jung Verlag
Publication date:	03/23/2023
Sold by:	Bookwire
Format:	eBook
Pages:	224
Sales rank:	902,026
File size:	1 MB
Language:	German

About the Author

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 Cambridge, served for a time as Sinclair Lewis’s secretary, and then worked several years as a journalist. Beginning in 1947 he devoted his time mainly to writing fiction. He won the Pulitzer Prize, taught for two decades at Yale, and was president of the Authors League of America and Chancellor of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. John Hersey died in 1993.

Editorial Reviews

On the basis of a return visit 40 years after the dropping of the bomb, Hersey has written a ``final chapter'' to one of the most important books to come out of World War II. The new chapter follows a reprint of the original text on the dropping of the first atomic bomb, and is written in the same spare, objective style. In it, Hersey brings up to date the lives of six survivors he covered so brilliantly in 1946. Once again he evokes the humdrum and the surreal elements in the aftermath of the bomb, and with eloquent simplicity he includes statements of other nations' nuclear tests. Compelling, unforgettable, and more timely than ever, this is absolutely essential for collections from junior high on. Robert H. Donahugh, Youngstown and Mahoning Cty. P.L., Ohio

Library Journal

" Hiroshima "...is the the quitest, and the best, of all the stories that have been writen about the most spectacular explosion in the time of man. " Hiroshima " seems destined to become about the most widely read article and book of our generation.-- Books of the Century; New York Times review, November 1946

Charles Poore

Nothing can be said about this book that can equal what the book has to say. It speaks for itself, and in an unforgettable way, for humanity.” —The New York Times

“One of the great classics of the war.” —The New Republic

“Everyone able to read should read it.” —Saturday Review of Literature
 

From the Publisher

The fates of six victims are portrayed vividly in Hersey’s classic account of the first atomic bomb. This edition contains a final chapter, written 40 years later, in which Hersey follows up on these six “Hibakusha,” or “explosion-affected persons.” Edward Asner speaks for many characters, yet his voice is that of the Hiroshima citizen caught up in day-to-day survival. He conveys the fear, confusion, pain and resignation of individuals dealing with a cataclysmic force. With subtle, understated delivery, Asner powerfully evokes the time, place and plight of these people. J.H.L. ©AudioFile, Portland, Maine

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