{"product_id":"9780141184371-hiroshima","title":"Hiroshima","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhen the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima in August 1945, killing 100,000 men, women and children, a new era in human history opened. This book presents an account of six men and women who struggled to cope with catastrophe and with often crippling disease.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe explosion over Hiroshima of the first nuclear bomb reduced, in an instant, an entire city to rubble and killed over 100,000 men, women and children. It also announced a new era in human history: the Atomic Age. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWritten only a year after the event, John Hersey's \u003ci\u003eHiroshima\u003c\/i\u003e was an immediate phenomenon. Originally published in the \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e magazine - the only single article to ever fill an entire edition - it quickly became a bestseller and established itself as the definitive account of the bombing. Hersey's lucid prose and focus on eye-witness experience made plain the horror of nuclear weapons, clearly demonstrating the incredible danger this new technology posed to humanity. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis edition includes an additional chapter, written forty after \u003ci\u003eHiroshima\u003c\/i\u003e was first published, exploring the devastating long-term effects of the bomb on survivors, as well as how a city can begin to rebuild after such a catastrophe.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40948687143009,"sku":"9780141184371","price":9.26,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_32417842.jpg?v=1737274700","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780141184371-hiroshima","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}