- Kernwapens, World War, 1939-1945, Atomic bomb, Blast effect
Describes the effect of the bombing of Hiroshima on six survivors of the atomic blast.
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Grave, earnest, bleak and prestige.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- warmbleak
- unpretentiousprestige
- cooloverwhelming
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- Author
- John Hersey
- First published
- 1946
- Pages
- 120
- Publisher
- Buccaneer Books, Incorporated, J. Curley & Associates, Bantam Books
- Editions
- 104
- Language
- Chinese, Spanish, und, German
- ISBN
- 9780881030259
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“AT EXACTLY fifteen minutes past eight in the morning, on August 6, 1945, Japanese time, at the moment when the atomic bomb flashed above Hiroshima, Miss Toshiko Sasaki, a clerk in the personnel department of the East Asia Tin Works, had just sat down at her place in the plant office and was turning her head to speak to the girl at the next desk.”
John Richard Hersey (June 17, 1914 – March 24, 1993) was an American writer and journalist. He is considered one of the earliest practitioners of the so-called New Journalism, in which storytelling techniques of fiction are adapted to non-fiction reportage. In 1999, *Hiroshima,* Hersey's account of the aftermath of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, was adjudged the finest work of American journalism of the 20th century by a 36-member panel associated with New York University's journalism department. John Hersey was born in Tientsin, China, the son of missionaries. He returned to the United States with his family at the age of ten. He attended the Hotchkiss School, then Yale Univer
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