Hiroshima

Hiroshima was originally published in The New Yorker magazine in 1945, one year after the bombings of Hiroshima and
Nagasaki in world war II. Hersey traces the actions of six people who lived and worked in Hiroshima at the time of the bombing. He begins with what they were doing shortly before the blast, continues through the blast itself and its traumatic aftermath, and ends by examining the long-range effects, both physical and psychological, that the use of the first atomic bomb had on their lives.