Hiroshima
by Hersey, John
- Used
- near fine
- Paperback
- Condition
- Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0553260588
- ISBN 13
- 9780553260588
- Seller
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Monroe, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY, U.S.A.: Bantam Books , 1986 "New Edition" of John Hersey's classic story - with a stunning new chapter written following the author's return to Japan forty years later; clean, tight and square, no spine crease, no tears or other creases, text is clean and unmarked, pages and inside covers are yellowed; blue pictorial cover
Synopsis
Hiroshima by John Hersey tells the account of six survivors covering the time before, during and after the U.S. bombing of Japan in World War II. Hersey chronicles the horrors of the event in simple, graphic detail in what was originally published as a 31,000 word article in New Yorker magazine in 1946. Just a few months later, Alfred A. Knopf printed it in book form.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Book Nook Monroe (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 313998
- Title
- Hiroshima
- Author
- Hersey, John
- Format/Binding
- Mass Market Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- later printing
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0553260588
- ISBN 13
- 9780553260588
- Publisher
- Bantam Books
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY, USA
- Date Published
- 1986
- Pages
- 152
- Size
- 12mo - over 6� - 7�" tall
- Keywords
- Hiroshima, Japan, nuclear bomb, World War II
- Bookseller catalogs
- History - U.S; History - World; History - Military;
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