Description
| Product ID: | 9780141184371 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
| Title: | Hiroshima |
| Authors: | Author: John Hersey |
| Page Count: | 208 |
| Subjects: | General and world history, General & world history, European history, Second World War, European history, Second World War, Japan, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2) |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Penguin Classics |
| Publisher Name: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2002-02-28 |