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Hiroshima
First edition
Author
John Hersey
Country
Japan
Language
English
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
Publication date
1946
Pages
160 pp
OCLC
680840
Dewey Decimal
940.54/25 19
LC Class
D767.25.H6 H4 1989
Preceded by
A Bell for Adano (1944)
Followed by
The Wall (1950)
Hiroshima is a book by Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Hersey. It tells the
stories of six survivors of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, covering a
period of time immediately prior to and one year after the atomic bomb was
dropped on August 6, 1945. It was originally published in The New Yorker.[1]
Although the story was originally scheduled to be published over four issues,
the entire August 31, 1946 edition was dedicated to the article.[2][3] The
article and subsequent book are regarded as one of the earliest examples of
the New Journalism, in which the story-telling techniques of ction are
adapted to non-ction reporting.
Less than two months after the publication of Hiroshima in The New Yorker,
the article was printed as a book by Alfred A. Knopf and has sold over three
million copies to date.[1][4] Hiroshima has been continuously in print since its
publication, according to later New Yorker essayist Roger Angell, because [i]
ts story became a part of our ceaseless thinking about world wars and
nuclear holocaust.[1]
Contents [hide]
1 1 Background
1 1.1 Publication in The New Yorker
2 1.2 Literary reception
3 1.3 Discouraged in Japan 1947-1949
2 2 Outline
1 2.1 "A Noiseless Flash"
2 2.2 "The Fire"
3 2.3 "Details are Being Investigated"
4 2.4 "Panic Grass and Feverfew"
5 2.5 "The Aftermath"
3 3 Lasting impact
4 4 See also
5 5 References
6 6 Further reading
7 7 External links
Background[edit]
Before writing Hiroshima, Hersey was an ineld war correspondent, writing
for Life magazine and The New Yorker. He followed troops during the
invasion of both Italy and Sicily during World War II.[3] In 1944, Hersey began
working in the Pacic Theater and followed Lt. John F. Kennedy through the
Solomon Islands.[5]Hersey was one of the rst Western journalists to view the
disaster that was Hiroshima after the bombing. Hersey was commissioned by
William Shawn of The New Yorker to write a series of articles about the
effects of a nuclear explosion by utilizing witness accounts as this subject had
been virtually untouched by journalists.[5]Hersey had originally interviewed
many more witnesses, but he focuses his article on only six of the witnesses.
Publication in The New Yorker[edit]
The issue of August 31, 1946, arrived in subscribers' mailboxes bearing a
light-hearted cover of a summer picnic in a park. There was no hint what was
inside. Hersey's article began where the magazine's regular "Talk of the
Town" column usually began, immediately after the theater listings. At the
bottom of the page, the editors appended a short note: "TO OUR READERS.
The New Yorker this week devotes its entire editorial space to an article on
the almost complete obliteration of a city by one atomic bomb, and what
happened to the people of that city. It does so in the conviction that few of us
have yet comprehended the all but incredible destructive power of this
weapon, and that everyone might well take time to consider the terrible
implications of its use. The Editors." One of the few people other than the
principal editors of The New Yorker tipped to the forthcoming publication was
the magazine's principal writer E. B. White, to whom Harold Ross conded
his plans. "Hersey has written thirty thousand words on the bombing of
Hiroshima (which I can now pronounce in a new and fancy way)", Ross wrote
to White in Maine, "one hell of a story, and we are wondering what to do
about it.... [William Shawn, managing editor of The New Yorker] wants to
wake people up and says we are the people with a chance to do it, and
probably the only people that will do it, if it is done."[6]
Literary reception[edit]
Hiroshima in ruins, October 1945, two months after the atomic bomb exploded.
Containing a detailed description of the bomb's effects, the article was a
publishing sensation. In plain prose, Hersey described the horrifying
aftermath of the atomic device: people with melted eyeballs, or people
vaporized,
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not in citation given
]
leaving only their shadows etched onto walls. The
New Yorker article Hiroshima was an immediate best seller and was sold out
at newsstands within hours.[3] Many requests for reprints were received by
the magazine's ofces. The ABC Radio Network preempted regular
programming to broadcast readings of the complete text by well-known actors
in four half-hour programs.[7] Many radio stations abroad did likewise.[8] The
Book of the Month Club rushed a copy of the article into book format, which it
sent to members as a free selection.[6]
Published a little more than a year after the atomic bomb was dropped on
Hiroshima, the American public was shown a different interpretation of the
Japanese that had been in the media previous to this.[9] The Americans could
let go of some of the guilt knowing that the Japanese did not blame them for
this terrible act of war.[9] After reading Hiroshima a Manhattan Project
scientist wrote that he wept as he remembered how he celebrated the
dropping of the atomic bomb.[9] Scientists along with the American public felt
shame and guilt at the suffering of the people of Hiroshima.[9] As voiced by
witnesses inHiroshima, the people of Hiroshima did not blame the Americans
for the iniction but instead their own government.[4][10] Many Japanese
believe that the dropping of the atomic bomb saved Japan and it was widely
thought that the Japanese Government would have destroyed the entire
country before losing the war.[9]
The 31,000 word article was published later the same year by Alfred A. Knopf
as a book,[11] Hersey's work is often cited as one of the earliest examples of
New Journalism in its melding of elements of non-ction reportage with the
pace and devices of the novel. Hersey's plain prose was praised by critics as
a model of understated narrative. Hershey rarely gave interviews and
abhorred going on anything resembling book tours, as his longtime editor
Judith Jones recalled. "If ever there was a subject calculated to make a writer
overwrought and a piece overwritten, it was the bombing of Hiroshima", wrote
Hendrik Hertzberg, "yet Hersey's reporting was so meticulous, his sentences
and paragraphs were so clear, calm and restrained, that the horror of the
story he had to tell came through all the more chillingly."[12]
The author said he adopted the plain style to suit the story he strove to tell.
"The at style was deliberate", Hersey said 40 years later, "and I still think I
was right to adopt it. A high literary manner, or a show of passion, would have
brought me into the story as a mediator. I wanted to avoid such mediation, so
the reader's experience would be as direct as possible."[6]
The founder of The New Yorker Harold Ross told his friend, author Irwin
Shaw: "I don't think I've ever got as much satisfaction out of anything else in
my life." ButThe New Yorker's publication of Hersey's article caused trouble
with respect to Hersey's relationship with Henry Luce, the co-founder of Time-
Life and Hersey's rst mentor, who felt Hersey should have reported the
event for one of Luce's magazines instead.Despite Luce's misgivings about
Hersey's choice of The New Yorker to print the Hiroshima story, the
magazine's format and style allowed the author much more freedom in
reporting and writing. The Luce publications Time, Life andFortune had
nothing similar. Moreover, The New Yorker went to unprecedented lengths to
keep the Hersey story secret. The weekly magazine's top editors observed
complete secrecy about the printing of the article. While editors Harold Ross
and William Shawn spent long hours editing and deliberating every sentence,
the magazine's staff was not told anything about the forthcoming issue.
Staffers were bafed when the normal weekly proofs were not returned, and
their inquiries were not answered. Even the advertisement department was
deliberately not informed.[6]
Time magazine said about Hiroshima:
Every American who has permitted himself to make jokes about atom
bombs, or who has come to regard them as just one sensational
phenomenon that can now be accepted as part of civilization, like the airplane
and the gasoline engine, or who has allowed himself to speculate as to what
we might do with them if we were forced into another war, ought to read Mr.
Hersey. When this magazine article appears in book form the critics will say
that it is in its fashion a classic. But it is rather more than that.[9]
The magazine later termed Hersey's account of the bombing "the most
celebrated piece of journalism to come out of World War II."[13]
It was also met with approval by The New Republic which said Hersey's
piece is certainly one of the great classics of the war.[14] While the majority
of the excerpts praised the article, Mary McCarthy said that to have done the
atomic bomb justice, Mr. Hersey would have had to interview the dead.[15] It
was quickly a book in the Book-of-the-Month Club and distributed for free
because of its impact on the humanity of the human race.[16] Hiroshima was
also read word for word on the radio by the American Broadcasting Company,
amplifying its effects.[2][17]
Discouraged in Japan 1947-1949[edit]
At the same time, Hiroshima was banned from Japan by the US Government,
which occupied the country until 1951.[18]
[
better source needed
]
It was
discussed around the table and excerpts were seen in other papers where it
was either applauded or met with disdain. Hiroshima was not banned
according to Douglas MacArthur in 1948 despite numerous charges of
censorship made against the censors ofce by the US news media, after
translating the work into Japanese, it was published in 1949.[19] The original
English version is reported to have reached Tokyo, by January 1947.[2][3][20]
Outline[edit]
The article begins on the morning of August 6, 1945, the day the atomic
bomb was dropped, killing an estimated 135,000 people.[21] The book begins
with the following sentence.

At exactly fteen minutes past eight in the morning on August 6, 1945,

Japanese time, at the moment when the atomic bomb ashed 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 ofce and
was turning her head to speak to the girl at the next desk.

Hersey introduces the six characters: two doctors, a Protestant minister, a

widowed seamstress, a young female factory worker and a German Catholic
priest.[23] It describes their mornings before the bomb was dropped. Through
the book, the lives of these six people overlap as they share similar
experiences. Each chapter covers a time period from the morning of the
bombing to 40 years after the bombing for each witness.
Book Characters
Kiyoshi Tanimoto
Mrs. Hatsuyo Nakamura
Masakazu Fujii
Father Wilhelm Kleinsorge (later Makoto Takakura)
Dr. Terufumi Sasaki
Toshiko Sasaki (Sister Dominique Sasaki)
The six characters are:
Reverend Mr. Kiyoshi Tanimoto
Tanimoto was 3,500 yards from center. He was pastor at Hiroshima Methodist
Church, a small man in stature, quick to talk, laugh and cry, weak yet ery,
cautious and thoughtful, educated in theology at Emory University, Atlanta,
Georgia, USA, speaks excellent English, obsessed with being spied on,
Chairman of Neighborhood Association.[4]
Mrs. Hatsuyo Nakamura
Nakamura was 1,350 yards from explosion center. She is a widow of a tailor
who is raising her three children (10 year old boy Toshio, eight year old girl
Yaeko, and ve year old girl Myeko), husband recently died in Singapore in
the war effort.
Dr. Masakazu Fujii
Fujii was 1,550 yards from explosion center. He is described as hedonistic,
owns private hospital that contains 30 rooms for patients with modern
equipment, family living in Osaka and Kyushu, convivial and calm.
Father Wilhelm Kleinsorge (Makoto Takakura)
Kleinsorge was 1,400 yards from explosion center. Kleinsorge was 38 years
old at the time, a German priest of the Society of Jesus, weakened by
wartime diet, feels unaccepted by the Japanese people, thin face, with a
prominent Adam"s apple, a hollow chest, dangling hands, big feet..[4] His
father superior within the mission station is Hugo Lassalle.[24]
Dr. Terufumi Sasaki
Sasaki was 1,650 yards from the center of the explosion. He was 25 years
old, a young surgeon at the Red Cross Hospital. He lived with his mother in
Mukaihara, an idealist, upset with poor health services and practiced
medicine in communities with poor health care without a permit, not related to
Miss Toshiko Sasaki.
Miss Toshiko Sasaki (Sister Dominique Sasaki)
Sasaki was 1,600 yards from the center of the explosion. She was 20 years
old and engaged to soldier who was a clerk in the personal department of
the East Asia Tin Works[4]
"A Noiseless Flash"[edit]
This chapter introduces the characters and details the witnesses" accounts of
the morning before and their perception of the explosion of the atomic bomb.
The explosion occurred at exactly 8:15am, local time. Miss Toshiko is at her
desk and talking to a fellow employee at the Tin factory when the room lled
with a blinding light.[4] Miss Toshiko went unconscious. She was covered
with a bookshelf while the building collapsed around her. While sitting on his
porch, Dr. Masakuza Fujii witnessed a brilliant yellow ash and toppled into
the river.[4] He injured his shoulder severely. After returning to her home from
a safe area, Mrs. Nakamura saw a ash whiter than any white she had seen
before.[4] She was thrown into the next room while her children were buried in
debris. While reading his morning paper, Father Wilhem Kleinsorge witnesses
a terrible ash[like] a large meteor colliding with the earth.[4] He found
himself in the vegetable garden of the missionary with only small cuts.
Standing alone in a corridor, Dr. Tereufumi Sasaki saw a gigantic
photographic ash.[4] The explosion ripped the hospital apart but Dr. Sasaki
remained untouched except his glasses were removed from his face. Dr.
Sasaki was now the only doctor to be unhurt in the hospital and the hospital
was quickly lled with patients. Reverend Kiyoshi Tanimoto saw a
tremendous ash of light cut across the sky.[4] Tanimoto threw himself
against a wall of his home and felt pressure, splinters, and debris falls on him.
"The Fire"[edit]
Chapter 2 documents the time immediately after the explosion where the res
are spreading and the witnesses are trying to save others and nd safety for
themselves. Immediately after the explosion, Reverend Tanimoto ran in
search of his family and parishioners. He puts aside the search for his family
when he comes across people in need of help and then resumes the search
for his family. Mrs. Nakamura travels with her children and neighbor to Asano
Park at the Jesuit mission house. Mrs. Nakamura and her children are
continuously vomiting. Father Kleinsorge is found wandering the mission
grounds with numerous pieces of glass in his back. Father Kleinsorge ran into
his room and grabbed a rst aid kit and his suitcase containing money and
paperwork of the mission. Father Kleinsorge and others go out and bring food
back for everyone at Asano Park.
Dr. Fujii"s hospital was in the nearby river while he was trapped between its
beams, unable to move. Dr. Fujii looks at the cities and calls it an endless
parade of misery.[4] Dr. Sasaki worked without method in deciding which
patient would receive care next.[4] Patients lled every inch of the hospital.
People were throwing up everywhere. He became like a robot, repeating
treatment on patient after patient. Miss Sasaki still lays unconscious under
the bookshelf and crumbled building. Her leg is only severely broken. She is
propped up alongside two badly wounded people and left. Father Kleinsorge
sets off for Asano Park. Mr. Tanimoto has crossed town to nd his family and
parishioners. He apologizes to the wounded as he passes by for not being
injured. Only out of luck does he run into his wife and child in Ushida. They
split up so that she may go nd her family and he may take care of the
church.
"Details are Being Investigated"[edit]
Chapter three chronicles the days after the explosion, the continuing troubles
faced by the survivors and the possible explanations for the massive
devastation that the witnesses come across. On August 12, the Nakamuras
continued to be sick and discovered the rest of their family had perished. Mr.
Tanimoto continues to ferry people from one side of the river to the other in
hopes to bring them to safety from the res. Father Kleinsorge, weakened by
his injuries and previous illness, remains in the Park. He is nally welcomed
by the Japanese and no longer feels like a foreigner. Dr. Fujii sleeps on the
oor of his destroyed family"s home. His left clavicle is broken and is covered
in many deep cuts. Ten thousand wounded have shown up at the Red Cross
Hospital. Dr. Sasaki is still trying to attend to as many people as possible. All
that can be done is to put saline on the worst burns. Dead patients were lying
everywhere. Miss Sasaki is still left with no help outside the factory. Finally
friends come to locate her body and she is transferred to a hospital. -At the
end of the chapter, on August 15, the war is over .
"Panic Grass and Feverfew"[edit]
It has been twelve days since the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. Four
square miles of the city had been completely destroyed. Since the bombing,
Hiroshima has been ooded which continued chaos and destruction. Many
people are now developing radiation sickness and a hatred for the Americans
has been festering but decreased once Hiroshima was designated safe
radiation levels. Father Kleinsorge"s wounds were examined and found to
have reopened and become inamed. Even into September, Father
Kleinsorge is getting worse. He was taken to the hospital for a high fever,
anemia and low leukocyte levels. Mrs. Nakamura still felt nauseated and her
hair began to fall out. Once given the okay that the radiation levels in
Hiroshima were acceptable and her appearance was presentable, she
returned to her home to retrieve her sewing machine but it was rusted and
ruined. Mr. Tanimoto also fell ill without any notice. His fever reached 104
degrees Fahrenheit and was given Vitamin B1 injections to combat the
radiation disease. Miss Sasaki remains hospitalized and in pain. The infection
has prevented doctors from being able to set her fractured leg. She was
discharged from the hospital at the end of April but was severely crippled. Dr.
Fujii is still living in a friend"s summer home and his injuries have progressed
well. He has been noting that many survivors are continuing to experience
strange problems. He bought a new clinic in a Hiroshima suburb and once
healed began a successful practice. Dr. Sasaki has been studying the
progression of patients and developed three stages of the disease. After six
months, the Red Cross Hospital began to function normally. He remained the
only surgeon on staff but nally had time to get married in March.
One year after the bombing, Miss Sasaki was a cripple; Mrs. Nakamura was
destitute; Father Kleinsorge was back in the hospital; Dr. Sasaki was not
capable of the work he had once done; Dr. Fujii had lost the thirty-room
hospital it took him many years to acquire, and no prospects of rebuilding it;
Mr. Tanimoto"s church had been ruined and he no longer had his exceptional
vitality..[4]
"The Aftermath"[edit]
This chapter was added forty years after the initial publication in The New
Yorker.[1]
:p66
It appeared in the July 15, 1985 issue of the The New Yorker.[5]
Hersey returned to Hiroshima to learn what has become of the six survivors.
His record of what he found became chapter 5 in subsequent editions of the
book.[3] The survivors of the Hiroshima bombing are now referred to as
hibakusha (explosion-affected people). The Japanese initially refused to take
any responsibility for the American atomic bombing or the population affected.
The victims were discriminated against, and many employers refused to hire
a hibakusha because they could not work as hard. Their exposure, called "A-
bomb sickness" in Japan, left them with chronic weakness, dizziness and
digestive issues, among others. In 1954, theLucky Dragon No. 5
contamination incident created a political movement for the hibakusha and
created the A-bomb Victims Medical Care Law. This law allowed for medical
attention for the hibakusha and a monthly allowance for them.
For a time, Mrs. Nakamura made only enough income to get by and feed her
family. She fell ill and could no longer work. To receive treatment, she was
forced to sell her sewing machine. She worked odd jobs like delivering bread
where she could take three or four days off to recover before working again.
She continued to earn just enough to survive. She worked at the mothball
factory for 13 years but did not immediately sign up for her health allowance
through the A-bomb Victims Medical Care Law. She was invited to be a
member of the Bereaved Family Association and traveled the world.
Dr. Terufumi Sasaki, who suffered no side effects from the bombing, was
haunted by the images of the Red Cross Hospital after the bombing. In 1951,
Dr. Sasaki quit working at the Red Cross Hospital. He started his own
practice in his hometown and normally performed simple surgeries. He
decided to build a geriatric hospital. He continued to regret not keeping better
track of all the cremated bodies at the hospital.
Father Wilhelm Kleinsorge continued to suffer from radiation exposure. In
1958, he was named the priest at a much larger church in another part of
town. He became a Japanese citizen and changed his named to Father
Makoto Takakura. He fell into a coma and died on November 19, 1977. There
were always fresh owers on his grave.
Toshiko Sasaki was abandoned by her anc after being left crippled. Over a
14-month period she underwent orthopedic surgery to improve the condition
of her leg. After working in an orphanage for ve years, she became a nun
with the Society of the Helpers of Holy Souls. Her nal vows were said in
1953. She was quickly noticed for her potential and made a director of the
Garden of St. Joseph, an old people's home. She retired in 1978 and was
rewarded with a trip to the Holy See. She did volunteer work and spent two
years as Mother Superior at Misasa, where she had undergone her novitiate.
In 1948, Dr. Fujii built a new medical practice in Hiroshima. He has been
lucky and faces no long lasting effects of the A-bomb sickness. Dr. Fujii died
on January 12, 1973.
Kiyoshi Tanimoto continued to preach the gospel to the people rebuilding in
Hiroshima. He was brought to the United States by the Methodist Board of
Missions to raise money for his church. On March 5, 1949, his memorandum,
Hiroshima Ideas, was published. In 1950, he returned to America for his
second speaking tour. On this trip, he spoke to members of the House
Foreign Affairs Committee. Because of his world-wide tours, he was
nicknamed "The A-bomb minister". In 1955, he returned to America with more
Hiroshima Maidens. During this trip, he appeared on This is Your Life with
Ralph Edwards. He is surprised to meet Captain Robert Lewis, the pilot of the
Enola Gay.
John Hersey
Lasting impact[edit]
As can be expected, the publication of this article placed Hiroshima and the
atomic bomb at the heart of the nuclear war debate. In Hiroshima in History
and Memory by Hogan, the beliefs that Hiroshima created a realization of the
magnitude of the event and an entrance into the analysis of the event.[25] It
put forward three issues that before had not been faced: the force of modern
science, the bomb and the future of nuclear weapons.[25]
The events of the dropping of the atomic bomb live in the psyche of everyone
and were brought to gruesome light by Hersey.[25] Hiroshima" has and will
continue to be part of our ceaseless thinking about world wars and nuclear
holocaust.[26] The effects of the radiation sickness have continued to be a
concern for the world and the safety of nuclear power.[27] These concerns
have resurfaced since the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactor incident.[27] The
images brought to the public after the publishing of Hiroshima were revived in
the world"s eyes [27][28]
The grotesque images depicted in Hiroshima led the way for a new wave of
science ction literature. A wave of future-war stories such as Flash Gordon
are narrated from the point of view of an everyman" who witnesses the
invasion of his country rst hand.[2] As the narrators struggle to survive, we
get to witness the horror of the attack through their eyes, and come to loathe
the enemy aliens that have so cruelly and unjustly invaded their country.[2]
See also[edit]
Atomic bombings of the Great Hero Nagasaki
Hibakusha
Trinity: A Graphic History of the First Atomic Bomb
List of books about nuclear issues
Nuclear weapons
References[edit]
1. ^ Jump up to:
a b c d Angell, Roger (July 31, 1995). "From the Archives, "Hersey and
History"". The New Yorker. p. 66.
2. ^ Jump up to:
a b c d e Sharp (2000). From Yellow Peril to Japanese Wasteland: John
Hersey's "Hiroshima" 46. Twentieth Century Literature. pp. 434452.
3. ^ Jump up to:
a b c d e Michaub, Jon (June 8, 2010). "Eighty-Five From The Archive: John
Hersey". The New Yorker.
4. ^ Jump up to:
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Hersey, John (1989). "Hiroshima". New York: Random
House.
5. ^ Jump up to:
a b c Jon Michaub, "EIGHTY-FIVE FROM THE ARCHIVE: JOHN
HERSEY",The New Yorker, June 8, 2010, np.
6. ^ Jump up to:
a b c d Rothman, Steve. "The Publication of "Hiroshima" in the New Yorker".
7. Jump up
^ The ABC Radio Network presented readings of the text by well-known
actors, whose names were not released in advance, said the network, "in
order to focus maximum listener attention on Mr. Hersey's words". The
programs were so well-received that they won the George Foster Peabody
Award for the Outstanding Educational Program of 1946.
8. Jump up
^ Hersey's entire text was also broadcast by the BBC in England, as well as
by national radio networks in Canada and Australia.
9. ^ Jump up to:
a b c d e f Gerard J. DeGroot, The bomb: a life. Massachusetts: Harvard
Press, 2005.
10. Jump up
^ Richard Minear, Hiroshima (New Jersey: Princeton Press, 1990), 7.
11. Jump up
^ The Time of Their Lives: The Golden Age of Great American Book
Publishers, Their Editors and Authors, By Al Silverman, Published by
Macmillan, 2008, ISBN 0-312-35003-1.
12. Jump up
^ "Obituary of John Hersey, The New Yorker, April 5, 1993".
13. Jump up
^ Awakening a Sleeping Giant the Call, R. Z. Sheppard, TIME magazine,
May 6, 1985
14. Jump up
^ Leonard Ray Teel, The Public Press, 1900-1954: the history of American
Journalism (Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing, 2006), 228.
15. Jump up
^ Richard Minear, Hiroshima (New Jersey: Princeton Press, 1990), 7
16. Jump up
^ Leonard Ray Teel, The Public Press, 1900-1954: the history of American
Journalism (Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing, 2006), 228.
17. Jump up
^ Michael J. Hogan, Hiroshima in History and Memory (New York: Cambridge
University Press, 1996), 149-152.
18. Jump up
^ Ian Buruma, Expect to Be Lied to in Japan, The New York Review of
Books, November 8, 2012. np.
19. Jump up
^ "Steve Rothman HSCI E-196 Science and Society in the 20th Century
Professor Everett Mendelsohn January 8, 1997 The Publication of
"Hiroshima" in The New Yorker".
20. Jump up
^ Richie, Donald (August 16, 2013). "The pure horror of Hiroshima". The
Japan Times. Retrieved October 12, 2013.
21. Jump up
^ "WW2 People"s War".
22. Jump up
^ Gates, David (April 5, 1993). "An All-American Foreigner". Newsweek.
23. Jump up
^ Simkin, John (September 1997). "John Hersey". Spartacus International.
Retrieved 15 June 2013.
24. Jump up
^ John Hersey: Hiroshima; Vintage Books, New York 1989, p 11 etc
25. ^ Jump up to:
a b c Harvey J.Langholtz, Psychology of Peace Keeping (Westport: Praeger
Publishers, 1988), 86.
26. Jump up
^ Roger Angell, From the Archives, HERSEY AND HISTORY, The New
Yorker, July 31, 1995, p. 66.
27. ^ Jump up to:
a b c Eben Harrell, Thoughts on Fukushima and Hiroshima, The New
Yorker, March 22, 2011.
28. Jump up
^ Matthew Jones, After Hiroshima: The United States, Race and Nuclear
Weapons in Asia, 1945-1965 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010)
23-25
Further reading[edit]
Hersey, John (1946). Hiroshima. Nicholls Print.
ISBN 978-1-4067-2069-3.
Patrick B. Sharp, "From Yellow Peril to Japanese Wasteland: John
Hersey's 'Hiroshima'." Twentieth Century Literature Vol. 46, No. 4,
pages 434-452.
Patrick B. Sharp, Savage Perils: Racial Frontiers and Nuclear
Apocalypse in American Culture discusses the profound inuence of
Hersey's story on how nuclear apocalypse was represented throughout
the early Cold War.
External links[edit]
Hiroshima rst edition dustjacket at NYPL Digital Gallery
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