Hiroshima

HERSEY John

Hiroshima - 3rd rev ed - London: Penguin, 1986 - 196p. - Penguin twentieth century classics .

First published in 1946, just 12 months after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, this book tells the stories of 6 people who survived. A further chapter was added, and appears in this edition, when Hersey returned to Hiroshima 40 years later which describes how they coped with tthe catastrophe and crippling long term disease affects caused by radiation.

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