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 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 the
original publication of this celebrated book John Hersey went back to Hiroshima in search of
the people whose stories he had told. His account of what he discovered about them is now the
eloquent and moving final chapter of Hiroshima.
