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Originally Posted by din155
Damn! I want to read them all. How do I decide  |
Well, you start by giving
Hiroshima its third.
Seriously, folks. This is perhaps the finest piece of journalism ever written. For the only time in its history,
The New Yorker devoted its
entire issue to a single article. The initial print run sold out in hours, and they allowed pretty much anyone and everyone to reprint the article. John Hersey took a different tack from other writers of the time and told the story of the people, the survivors, in a way that was far more compelling than just the myriad details of the devastation had been. This book hasn't been out of print since it was written in 1946, and this is the 70th Anniversary of its publication. It's short - Novella length at ~100 pages. And while I don't think it will be a "fun" read, I do think it will be an interesting and provocative one.