A journalistic masterpiece. John Hersey transports us back to the streets of Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945-the day the city was destroyed from the 1st atomic bomb. Told through the recollections of six survivors, Hiroshima is normally a timeless, powerful classic that will awaken your heart as well as your compassion. Within this fresh edition, Hersey earnings to Hiroshima to find the survivors-and to inform their fates in an eloquent and moving final chapter.