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Hiroshima (book)
''Hiroshima'' is a book by Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Hersey. It tells the stories of six survivors of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, covering a period of time immediately prior to and one year after the atomic bomb was dropped on August 6, 1945. It was originally published in ''The New Yorker''.〔 Although the story was originally scheduled to be published over four issues, the entire August 31, 1946 edition was dedicated to the article. The article and subsequent book are regarded as one of the earliest examples of the New Journalism, in which the story-telling techniques of fiction are adapted to non-fiction reporting.
Less than two months after the publication of ''Hiroshima'' in ''The New Yorker'', the article was printed as a book by Alfred A. Knopf and has sold over three million copies to date. ''Hiroshima'' has been continuously in print since its publication, according to later ''New Yorker'' essayist Roger Angell, because “()ts story became a part of our ceaseless thinking about world wars and nuclear holocaust”.〔
== Background ==
Before writing ''Hiroshima'', Hersey was an infield war correspondent, writing for ''Life'' magazine and ''The New Yorker''. He followed troops during the invasion of both Italy and Sicily during World War II.〔 In 1944, Hersey began working in the Pacific Theater and followed Lt. John F. Kennedy through the Solomon Islands.〔Jon Michaub, "EIGHTY-FIVE FROM THE ARCHIVE: JOHN HERSEY", ''The New Yorker'', June 8, 2010, np.〕 Hersey was one of the first Western journalists to view the disaster that was Hiroshima after the bombing. Hersey was commissioned by William Shawn of ''The New Yorker'' to write a series of articles about the effects of a nuclear explosion by utilizing witness accounts as this subject had been virtually untouched by journalists.〔 Hersey had originally interviewed many more witnesses, but he focuses his article on only six of the witnesses.
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