Hiroshima
Pocketbok. Penguin. 1986. 196 sidor.
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One of the most magnificent and powerful writers of modern times. This book brings the central problem of human existence today down from the often stupefyingly technical and theoretical to a reality no one can miss. You must not fail to read it'
- Washington Post
When the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima in August 1945, killing 100,000 men, women and children, a new era in human history opened.
Written only a year after the disaster, John Hersey brought the event vividly alive with this heartrending account of six men and women who survived despite all the odds. He added a further chapter when, forty years later, he returned to Hiroshima to discover how the same six people had struggled to cope with catastrophe and with often crippling disease. The result is a devastating picture of the long-term effects of one very small bomb.
'Hersey let the unvarnished facts speak for themselves. They did so with terrible eloquence .. the very word Hiroshima became the ultimate symbol of the horrors of modern warfare. It was a book which confronted the reader with the notion that with the A-bomb something unspeakable had entered into the vocabulary of man's capacity to inflict suffering on himself - The Times
Förlagsfakta
- ISBN
- 0140182918
- Titel
- Hiroshima
- Författare
- Hersey, John
- Förlag
- Penguin
- Utgivningsår
- 1986
- Omfång
- 196 sidor