Hiroshima
by John Hersey
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good condition, no dust jacket.
- Seller
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Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1946. Very good condition, no dust jacket.. Edition: First edition., Binding: Original blue cloth boards with green title to upper board and spine, edges uncut. , Notes: This is Hersey’s best-known work. An American journalist, he travelled to Hiroshima just months after the blast to collect stories of six survivors whose accounts he narrates in this work of New Journalism. First published in full in the New Yorker, the issue sold out in hours and was rushed into a second printing. Radio stations quickly began airing readings of the article. Time magazine later called Hersey's account of the bombing "the most celebrated piece of journalism to come out of World War II.", Size: 8vo., Pages: P. 116 pp., Category: Book Asia Far East; Book Military
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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- Bookseller
- Alexandre Antique Prints, Maps & Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- B3489
- Title
- Hiroshima
- Author
- John Hersey
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good condition, no dust jacket.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1946
- Keywords
- Book Asia Far East; Book Military
Terms of Sale
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