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Description edit
On August 6, 1945, Hiroshima was destroyed by the first atomic bomb ever dropped on a city. This book tells what happened on that day, told through the memoirs of survivors.
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Characters/People edit
- Mr. Tanimoto: Add a description of this character.
- Dr. Sasaki
- Miss Sasaki
- Father Kleinsorge: A German Jesuit priest who was in Japan during the war, and an atomic bomb survivor.
First Sentence edit
AT EXACTLY fifteen minutes past eight in the morning, on August 6, 1945, Japanese time, at the moment when the atomic bomb flashed above Hiroshima, Miss Toshiko Sasaki, a clerk in the personnel department of the East Asia Tin Works, had just sat down at her place in the plant office and was turning her head to speak to the girl at the next desk.
Table of Contents edit
1. A Noiseless Flash
2. The Fire
3. Details Are Being Investigated
4. Panic Grass and Feverfew
5. The Aftermath
Series & Lists edit
This book is in TIME Magazine's All-TIME 100 Best Nonfiction Books. (authoritative list)
This book is in Penguin Modern Classics. (edition-based publisher list)
Authors & Contributors edit
- John Hersey (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1946
ISBN: 0679721037
Page Count: 160
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1946
ISBN: 0679721037
Page Count: 160
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: D767.25.H6 H4 1989
- Dewey: 940.5425
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