Hiroshima

1 About this book

Hiroshima is a 1946 book by American author John Hersey. It tells the stories of six survivors of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. It is regarded as one of the earliest examples of New Journalism, in which the story-telling techniques of fiction are adapted to non-fiction reporting.

The work was originally published in The New Yorker, which had planned to run it over four issues but instead dedicated the entire edition of August 31, 1946, to a single article. Less than two months later, the article was printed as a book by Alfred A. Knopf. Never out of print, it has sold more than three million copies. "Its story became a part of our ceaseless thinking about world wars and nuclear holocaust," New Yorker essayist Roger Angell wrote in 1995.

Summary adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Good for readers who want: history, World War II history, and a short read.

• History
• Japan
• World War II
• Atomic bomb
• Nuclear warfare
• Survivors
• Popular Work
• War