Hiroshima

Hiroshima

Rating

7.0

The Pequod Review:

I appreciate the historical importance of John Hersey's Hiroshima, especially in 1946 when The New Yorker devoted the entirety of its issue to the complete original text. But I wonder if people who refer to it as a masterpiece of non-fiction reporting have actually read it. (Here is Hersey's original New Yorker article.)