Hiroshima

the long version

When the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima in August 1945, killing 100.000 men, women and children, it was the beginnning of a terrifying new episode in human history.Wrinten only a year after the disaster, John Hersey brought the event vividly alive with his heart-rending account of six men and women who survived despite all the odds. He added a further chapter when, forty years later, he returned to Hiroshima to discover how the same six people had struggled to cope with catastrophe a