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Hiroshima By John Hersey Essay

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Hiroshima is a book which is written by Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Hersey. This is one of the most remarkable, deeply affecting books along with 160 pages. In this book he tells the stories of six survivors of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima who was survive every ongoing day after the bomb and how many people continue to die due to the various types of injuries they have suffered, Hersey also describe in detail very clearly what has happened to them. It was originally published in The New Yorker. The book is regarded as the example of the Journalism, in which the story-telling the techniques of fiction are adapted to non-fiction reporting which is reality based. Most of the city is destroyed and thousands of its citizens die.

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