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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... Read Full Overview

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... Read Full Overview

The classic tale of the day the first atom bomb was dropped offers a haunting evocation of the memories of survivors. "Everyone able to read should read it"--Saturday Review of Literature

La cr nica sobre seis supervivientes de Hiroshima que se convirti en un gran cl sico del periodismo. Toda persona que sepa leer, deber a leer este libro. Saturday Review of Literature. El verano de 1945, William Shawn, director ejecutivo de The New Yorker, habl con el reportero... Read Full Overview

Hiroshima, de John Hersey, se public por primera vez en la revista The New Yorker el 31 de agosto de 1946, un a o despu s del lanzamiento de la bomba at mica sobre la ciudad. En un gesto excepcional, que no ha vuelto a repetirse desde entonces, la revista incluy en su n mero... Read Full Overview

Hiroshima is the story of six human beings who lived through the greatest single manmade disaster in history. With what Bruce Bliven called "the simplicity of genius," John Hersey tells what these six -- a clerk, a widowed seamstress, a physician, a Methodist minister, a young... Read Full Overview

The explosion over Hiroshima of the first nuclear bomb reduced, in an instant, an entire city to rubble and killed over 100,000 men, women and children. It also announced a new era in human history: the Atomic Age.