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Hiroshimaby John Hersey is a 1946 nonfiction book that tells the true stories of six survivors of the atomic bomb dropped on August 6, 1945. The author follows a German priest, a young seamstress, a widowed mother, a surgeon, a Methodist minister, and a young doctor during and after the devastating blast. He describes the blinding light, the sudden ruin of the Japanese city, and the silent, deadly illness of radiation that followed weeks later. By focusing on daily human struggles instead of political numbers, Hersey shows the true and terrible cost of nuclear war.
