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Hiroshima

John Hersey

Form
Form Non-fiction
Year
Year 1946
Pages
Pages 150

A journalist follows six ordinary residents of Hiroshima through the morning the atomic bomb falls on their city and the months of injury, loss and survival that follow.

There, in the tin factory, in the first moment of the atomic age, a human being was crushed by books.
Hiroshima, John Hersey

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