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Hiroshima is a 1946 book by Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Hersey. It tells the stories of six survivors of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.

Hiroshima is a 1946 book by Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Hersey. It regarded as one of the earliest examples of the New Journalism, in which the story-telling techniques of fiction are adapted to non-fiction reporting.

John Hersey HIROSHIMA PUBLISHERS’ NOTE ON Monday, August 6th, 1945, a new era in human history opened. ON Monday, August 6th, 1945, a new era in human history opened.

After going to Japan and interviewing survivors, Hersey decided to show the bombing through six pairs of eyes. Originally, Hiroshima was planned as a four-part series. In the end, however, it was all published in a single issue, in August of 1946. There was nothing unusual about the cover, which showed ordinary people enjoying summertime.

Hersey’s extraordinary, gripping book tells the personal stories of six people who endured the 1945 atom bomb attack on the Japanese city. American print journalism, possibly thanks to its special place in the US constitution, occasionally delivers exemplary knockout blows, world-class reporting on great subjects. John Hersey’s Hiroshima stands at the head of this tradition. These 31,000 words of searing testimony were written and published just a year after the dropping of the first A-bomb on Japan in August 1945, a terrible act of war that killed 100,000 men, women and children and marked.

John Hersey was not the first to report from Hiroshima but the reports and newsreels had been a blizzard of numbers too big to fully comprehend

John Hersey was not the first to report from Hiroshima but the reports and newsreels had been a blizzard of numbers too big to fully comprehend

In his classic book, "Hiroshima," John Hersey simply and powerfully tells the story of six residents of Hiroshima who were dramatically and traumatically impacted by the dropping of the atomic bomb near the end of World War II. I've always been fascinated by World War II history and have.

In his classic book, "Hiroshima," John Hersey simply and powerfully tells the story of six residents of Hiroshima who were dramatically and traumatically impacted by the dropping of the atomic bomb near the end of World War II. I've always been fascinated by World War II history and have deeply appreciated works of art like "Band of Brothers" or "Ghost Soldiers," which help to bring humanity and complexity into our perceptions of war, which are too often overly abstract and neatly simplistic (good guys vs. bad guys, hopefully the good guys won).

This book, John Hersey's journalistic masterpiece, tells what happened on that da.

This book, John Hersey's journalistic masterpiece, tells what happened on that day. Told through the memories of survivors, this timeless, powerful and compassionate document has become a classic "that stirs the conscience of humanity" (The New York Times). Almost four decades after On August 6, 1945, Hiroshima was destroyed by the first atom bomb ever dropped on a city.

This book, John Hersey’s journalistic masterpiece, tells what happened on that da.

This book, John Hersey’s journalistic masterpiece, tells what happened on that day.

John Hersey was one of the first Western journalists to survey the damage of Hiroshima after the bomb was dropped. Through the book, Hersey tells these true stories in vivid and often grotesque detail. He was commissioned by The New Yorker to write a series of articles about the effects of the explosion on several normal citizens. The beginning of the novel introduces the six narrative characters and describes what they were doing on the morning of the explosion, August 6th, 1945.