Hiroshima - Penguin Modern Classics

When the first atom bomb was dropped on 6 August 1945, it devastated a great city and knocked Japan out of the war. Nine months later the distinguished American writer was sent to Hiroshima to find out, in human and not scientific terms, what had happened. Little over a year after the event his account appeared in the New Yorker and as a book. Hersey's unforgettable narrative is built around the experiences of six survivors in a city where some 100,000 men, women and children were killed. It supplies an epitaph to those who died in one of history's most catastrophic events and a grave warning to the present and the future...