John Hersey
1) Hiroshima
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Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author John Hersey's seminal work of narrative nonfiction which has defined the way we think about nuclear warfare. “One of the great classics of the war" (The New Republic) that tells what happened in Hiroshima during World War II through the memories of the survivors of the first atomic bomb ever dropped on a city.
"The perspective [Hiroshima] offers...
"The perspective [Hiroshima] offers...
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John Hersey grew up in China, studied at Yale and Cambridge, worked as a journalist, and astonished the nation when he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1945 for A Bell for Adano. His first novel, its offbeat blend of patriotism and warm humor immediately captured readers' hearts. In 1943, the American Major Victor Joppolo finds himself the civil affairs officer-the mayor-of a small town in Sicily. Equipped with the rulebook, How to Bring American Democracy...
3) Blues
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"Bluefish," writes the author, are "animated chopping machines. They will eat anything alive. They have stripped the toes from surfers in Florida. They can't not eat." Hersey weaves fact and legend around his subject, engaging the reader with juicy details of ocean life, philosophy, natural history, and the crises into which man has let his environment slide.
4) Hiroshima
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La crónica sobre seis supervivientes de Hiroshima que se convirtió en un gran clásico del periodismo.
«Toda persona que sepa leer, debería leer este libro.»
Saturday Review of Literature
El verano de 1945, William Shawn, director ejecutivo de The New Yorker, habló con el reportero John Hersey sobre la idea de publicar un relato que ilustrara la dimensión humana de los efectos de la bomba atómica en Hiroshima, pues le causaba estupor comprobar...
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Find out how war smells, looks, and feels to fighting men, and how courage grows from their desperate will to live. These are five true stories of World War II.
1. Survival
2. The Battle of the River
3. Nine Men on a Four-Man Raft
4. Borie's Last Battle
5. Front Seats at Sea War
A famous war correspondent takes readers aboard John F. Kennedy's doomed PT-109, into the horror of Guadalcanal, and on onto a death raft in the Southwest Pacific....