Hiroshima (Penguin Modern Classics)

John., Hersey

Biographies & Memoirs

BANTAM PRESS

Algiers Motel Incident

History

Americas

Penguin

Hiroshima

Penguin??Books

When the first atomic bomb was dropped on hiroshima in august 1945, killing 100,000 men, women and children, a new era in human history opened written only a year after the disaster, john hersey brought the event vividly alive with this heartrending account of six men and women who survived despite all the odds a further chapter was added when, forty years later, he returned to hiroshima to discover how the same six people had struggled to cope with catastrophe and with often crippling disease the result is a devastating picture of the long-term effects of one bomb

Asia

Penquin

120p original grey period paperback, fresh clean copy, journalist's painful account of the aftermath of the bombing of Hiroshima by American forces, exorbitant blurb on back cover praises author for his good looks (he dresses his tall, wiry figure with conservative care, always looking well-groomed and polished...)

Military

Penguin Books, Ltd.

Told in the form of a fictional biography, this account of the life and vocation of David Treadup, a New York farm boy who becomes a missionary to China, portrays the history of China in this century

The Call

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Weidenfeld &Nicholson

While on a fishing trip an experienced fisherman teaches a young stranger about bluefish and life

Blues

History & Criticism

Littlehampton Book Services Ltd.

The Child Buyer

Franklin Classics

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