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Hiroshima

by John Hersey

This journalistic work details the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945 through the personal accounts of survivors. This edition includes an additional chapter tracing the lives of these individuals forty years after the event.

Accession 7788 ISBN 9780812415827 Publisher Vintage Books
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