Hiroshima

Name: Hiroshima
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4 (25 reviews)
Author: John Hersey
ISBN: 9781436125765

Author: John Hersey

Narrator: George Guidall

Unabridged: 5 hr 24 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 02/25/2011

Categories: Nonfiction, History

Synopsis

A journalistic masterpiece. John Hersey transports us back to the streets of Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945-the day the city was destroyed by the first atomic bomb. Told through the memories of six survivors, Hiroshima is a timeless, powerful classic that will awaken your heart and your compassion. In this new edition, Hersey returns to Hiroshima to find the survivors-and to tell their fates in an eloquent and moving final chapter.

About John Hersey

John Hersey (1914â€“1993), a prolific and acclaimed writer of both fiction and nonfiction, won a Pulitzer Prize for A Bell for Adano. Yet throughout his life, he was most respected for Hiroshima. According to the New Yorker, â€œ[It] remains his crowning achievement. Though it is imbued with a profound moral sense, it does not preach. It does not hector. It simply tells. The power of it, and of its author, is in the reporting.â€

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jon

It is not often that I find myself unable to convey the magnitude of importance a book has - but that is exactly where I am at when trying to describe this book. Read it - look at our world - try to get others to read it - hopefully a critical mass of common sense will implode in our collective hear......more

Goodreads review by Timothy

Let me start with a preambular warning: do NOT buy the Amazon kindle edition which is missing Chapter 5. This is the eBook edition published by Pickle Partners (ASIN B00QU4BBTY). Chapter 5 is the John Hersey follow up 40 years later telling the story of the main characters after the original magazin......more