Genre: Nonfiction
Length: 152 pages
Audiobook Length: 5 hours and 23 minutes
First Published: 1946
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Publisher’s Description
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.
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.
Quotes from Hiroshima
In a city of two hundred and forty-five thousand, nearly a hundred thousand people had been killed or doomed at one blow; a hundred thousand more were hurt.
About a week after the bomb dropped, a vague, incomprehensible rumor reached Hiroshima—that the city had been destroyed by the energy released when atoms were somehow split in two.
About John Hershey
John Hershey was an American journalist and the author whose works include Hiroshima, The Wall, A Bell for Adano. He died in 1978 at the age of 78.
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