Hiroshima
Hersey, John, 1914-19931972
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When the first atom bomb was dropped on 6th August 1945, it devastated a great city and knocked Japan out of the war. John Hersey was sent, nine months later, to Hiroshima to find out in human and not scientific terms, what had happened. This is his account of this experience of war.
Main title:
Hiroshima / John Hersey.
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Imprint:
Harmondsworth : Penguin, 1972.
Collation:
120p. ; 18cm.
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Notes:
Originally published in the 'New Yorker', August 1946; Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1946.
ISBN:
9780140006032 (pbk)
Dewey class:
940.535219940.535219623.4543
Language:
English
BRN:
482740
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