Hiroshima
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Edition: Second 1946 Edition.
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and corners
Condition remarks: Minor tear to back cover, yellowed cover and pages, some damage to spine.
On the morning of August 6, 1945, a single atomic bomb reduced the city of Hiroshima to ash — and John Hersey's Hiroshima chronicles the harrowing hours, days, and months that followed through the eyes of six survivors whose lives were irrevocably shattered in an instant. Originally published in a landmark 1946 issue of The New Yorker — which devoted its entire editorial space to the account — this work of narrative journalism presents with searing clarity the human cost of nuclear warfare: a widowed seamstress, a German Jesuit priest, two doctors, a young female factory worker, and a Methodist minister, each struggling to comprehend the incomprehensible. Hersey's prose is restrained yet devastating, wielding understatement as a scalpel to expose the physical and psychological wounds left by mankind's most destructive weapon. The work stands as a monument of 20th-century journalism, arguing through its very structure — personal, intimate, unhurried — that the true measure of historical catastrophe is found not in statistics, but in individual human suffering. Decades after its first publication, Hiroshima remains an urgent moral document, leaving the reader to quietly confront a question that has never ceased to matter: what does it mean to survive the unthinkable?
Author: John Hersey
Format: Paperback
Published: 1946, Penguin Books
Genre: WW2
Edition: Second 1946 Edition.
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and corners
Condition remarks: Minor tear to back cover, yellowed cover and pages, some damage to spine.
On the morning of August 6, 1945, a single atomic bomb reduced the city of Hiroshima to ash — and John Hersey's Hiroshima chronicles the harrowing hours, days, and months that followed through the eyes of six survivors whose lives were irrevocably shattered in an instant. Originally published in a landmark 1946 issue of The New Yorker — which devoted its entire editorial space to the account — this work of narrative journalism presents with searing clarity the human cost of nuclear warfare: a widowed seamstress, a German Jesuit priest, two doctors, a young female factory worker, and a Methodist minister, each struggling to comprehend the incomprehensible. Hersey's prose is restrained yet devastating, wielding understatement as a scalpel to expose the physical and psychological wounds left by mankind's most destructive weapon. The work stands as a monument of 20th-century journalism, arguing through its very structure — personal, intimate, unhurried — that the true measure of historical catastrophe is found not in statistics, but in individual human suffering. Decades after its first publication, Hiroshima remains an urgent moral document, leaving the reader to quietly confront a question that has never ceased to matter: what does it mean to survive the unthinkable?