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Hiroshima

by John Hersey · 1946

★★★★★ 5/5 · ALLO'S PICK
Hersey went to Hiroshima a year after the bomb and interviewed six survivors. First published in The New Yorker in 1946, it took up the entire issue. Still unmatched as an account of catastrophe.
Allo's take
The ur-text of narrative journalism. Hersey's restraint is absolute and the effect is catastrophic. No book about war has been this clear.
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