Bibliograph

Hiroshima, John Hersey

Type

Label

Hiroshima, John Hersey

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Hiroshima

Oclc number

680840

Responsibility statement

John Hersey

resource.studyProgramName

Reading Counts RC, 9-12, 7.5, 14.0, 5244.Accelerated Reader AR, 9.0, UG, 8.4, 10036.

Summary

On August 6, 1945, Hiroshima was destroyed by the first atom bomb ever dropped on a city. This book, John Hersey's journalistic masterpiece, tells what happened on that day. Told through the memories of survivors, this timeless, powerful and compassionate document has become a classic "that stirs the conscience of humanity" (The New York Times). Almost four decades after the original publication of this celebrated book, John Hersey went back to Hiroshima in search of the people whose stories he had told. His account of what he discovered about them is now the eloquent and moving final chapter of Hiroshima

Table Of Contents

A noiseless flash -- The fire -- Details are being investigated -- Panic grass and feverfew -- The aftermath

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