"Hiroshima" ( John Hersey )

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"John Hersey's Hiroshima first appeared as a magazine article in The New Yorker. This was the first time the entire editorial content of that magazine had been devoted to a single article, showing how important the work was considered at the time (Toland 3). The book was published a few months later. It is an example of war reporting in depth, and it provided the public with the first full account of the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, only a year or so after the event. In this book, Hersey focuses on six people who survived the bomb. Their stories and reactions to what they saw enable the writer to expand beyond the six to tell the story of the city as a whole and to place the reader on the spot when the bomb was dropped and in the aftermath of that event.

The book is reportage, but it cannot help but depict the.."

More papers on "Hiroshima" ( John Hersey ):

• Book Review # 44369 : "Hiroshima"
• Book Review # 128243 : "The Bombing of Hiroshima"
• Book Review # 100116 : "Hiroshima"

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