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020 _a9780141184371
082 _a940.5425
_bHER
100 _aHersey, John
_924195
245 _aHiroshima
260 _bPenguin books
_aNew York
_c1986
300 _a196 p.
365 _aINR
_b499.00
520 _aWhen the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima in August 1945, killing 100,000 men, women and children, it was the beginning of a terrifying new episode in human history. Written only a year after the disaster, John Hersey brought the event vividly alive with this heart-rending account of six men and women who survived despite all the odds. He added a further chapter 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 very small bomb (https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/57190/hiroshima-by-john-hersey/9780141041865)
650 _aHistory--Japan
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