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Hiroshima

Hiroshima

John Hersey

CliffsNotes on Hiroshima recounts the hours, days, and years after August 6, 1945, when the first atomic bomb was dropped from an American plane on the 245,000 residents of Hiroshima, Japan. While the city was destroyed and thousands died, Hiroshima focuses on six survivors. The New Yorker published John Hershey's original manuscript in its entirety in 1946. Newsstands could not keep copies of it on their shelves — Albert Einstein himself ordered 1,000 copies.

Take the Quiz What is Miss Sasaki's occupation at the time that the bomb is dropped?
  1. A clerk in the personnel department of the East Asia Tin Works
  2. A surgeon at the Red Cross Hospital
  3. A newspaper journalist
  4. A childcare provider working from her home
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