Pmc hiroshima
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When the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima in August 1945, killing 100,000 men, women and children, a new era in human history opened. This book presents an account of six men and women who struggled to cope with catastrophe and with often crippling disease.
The explosion over Hiroshima of the first nuclear bomb reduced, in an instant, an entire city to rubble and killed over 100,000 men, women and children. It also announced a new era in human history: the Atomic Age.
Written only a year after the event, John Hersey's Hiroshima was an immediate phenomenon. Originally published in the New Yorker magazine - the only single article to ever fill an entire edition - it quickly became a bestseller and established itself as the definitive account of the bombing. Hersey's lucid prose and focus on eye-witness experience made plain the horror of nuclear weapons, clearly demonstrating the incredible danger this new technology posed to humanity.
This edition includes an additional chapter, written forty after Hiroshima was first published, exploring the devastating long-term effects of the bomb on survivors, as well as how a city can begin to rebuild after such a catastrophe.
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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 28 februari 2002
Aantal pagina's: 208
Illustraties: Nee
Hoofdauteur: John Hersey
Tweede Auteur: Professor John Hersey
Hoofduitgeverij: Penguin Classics
Eerste Vertaler: Alexander Pechmann
Tweede Vertaler: Justinian Frisch
Originele titel: Hiroshima
AI-gegenereerd: Nee
Extra groot lettertype: Nee
Product breedte: 129 mm
Product hoogte: 12 mm
Product lengte: 198 mm
Studieboek: Nee
Verpakking breedte: 130 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 20 mm
Verpakking lengte: 196 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 156 g
eWaste: Nee
EAN: 9780141184371