La cr�nica sobre seis supervivientes de Hiroshima que se convirti� en un gran cl�sico del periodismo. Toda persona que sepa leer, deber�a leer este libro.�Saturday Review of Literature. El verano de 1945, William Shawn, director ejecutivo de The New Yorker, habl� con el reportero John Hersey sobre la idea de publicar un relato que ilustrara la dimensi�n humana de los efectos de la bomba at�mica en Hiroshima, pues le causaba estupor comprobar que, pese a la gran cantidad de informaci�n sobre la bomba ...
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La cr�nica sobre seis supervivientes de Hiroshima que se convirti� en un gran cl�sico del periodismo. Toda persona que sepa leer, deber�a leer este libro.�Saturday Review of Literature. El verano de 1945, William Shawn, director ejecutivo de The New Yorker, habl� con el reportero John Hersey sobre la idea de publicar un relato que ilustrara la dimensi�n humana de los efectos de la bomba at�mica en Hiroshima, pues le causaba estupor comprobar que, pese a la gran cantidad de informaci�n sobre la bomba que recib�an, se estaba ignorando lo que realmente hab�a ocurrido en Hiroshima. El reportero acept� el encargo. Hershey viaj� a Hiroshima para investigar y entrevistar a varios supervivientes de la explosi�n de la bomba at�mica, lanzada el 6 de agosto de 1945, y decidi� que el retrato lo conformar�an seis testimonios: una oficinista, Toshiko Sasaki; un m�dico, el Dr. Masakazu Fuji; una viuda a cargo de sus tres hijos peque�os, Hatsuyo Nakamura; un misionero alem�n, el padre Wilhem Kleinsorge; un joven cirujano, el Dr. Terufumi Sasaki y un pastor metodista, el reverendo Kiyoshi Tanimoto. La publicaci�n de Hiroshima trajo consigo una enorme conmoci�n. El reportaje se public� en una edici�n monotem�tica de The New Yorker el 31 de agosto de 1946. La revista se agot� inmediatamente y de todo el mundo lleg� una avalancha de peticiones de reimpresi�n. Su difusi�n corri� como la p�lvora y en pocos meses la editorial Alfred A. Knopf lo public� como libro, permitiendo que al a�o siguiente ya se hubiera traducido y publicado pr�cticamente en todo el mundo. En la actualidad Hiroshima lleva vendidos m�s de un mill�n de ejemplares y es un referente del periodismo de investigaci�n y un cl�sico de la literatura de guerra. Es el �nico art�culo, entre los millares de textos escritos sobre la bomba at�mica, que describe c�mo era la vida para las personas que hab�an sobrevivido a un ataque nuclear. Y est� considerado como �el m�s famoso art�culo de revista jam�s publicado�. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION The accounts of six Hiroshima survivors that became a great journalism classic. Anyone who can read should read this book. - Saturday Review of Literature On August 6, 1945, Hiroshima was destroyed by the first atomic bomb ever dropped on a city. That summer William Shawn, executive director of The New Yorker, summoned reporter John Hersey to write a story that illustrated the human effects of the atomic bomb. He accepted the assignment, then traveled to Hiroshima. This is his journalistic masterpiece that tells what happened on that day. Told through the memories of six survivors, this timeless, powerful, and compassionate document has become a classic that stirs the conscience of humanity. The report was published in a special edition of The New Yorker on August 31, 1946, and the magazine was sold out immediately. The news of that edition and its content spread like wildfire, and in a few months publisher Alfred A. Knopf published it as a book. It is considered the most famous magazine article ever published.
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Hiroshima, Japan; 8:00AM. The all-clear sounds for the earlier air raid siren, and the city's citizens go back to their shopping, their reading . . . their every day tasks at hand. It's a windless day, but the sun is beginning to show signs that the day will be a hot one; for those out and about, it's already uncomfortably warm. Throughout the previous weeks, Hiroshima has had numerous false alarm air raid sirens, fraying the nerves of the Japanese inhabitants. Hiroshima has been lucky, being one of the two least bombed cities by the Americans in Japan.
8:16 AM. A flash of light: un-counted tens of thousands are instantly wiped from the face of the Earth. By 8:20 one hundred thousand people are dead, with tens of thousands more to follow in the months following. The world will never be the same, and the stark reality of the bomb has done its job.
Hiroshima was published in 1946, less than a year after the bomb had been dropped. It merited the space of a full issue in the New Yorker magazine, painting the first human picture of the tragedy through the following of six ordinary citizen's lives on that day.
Those six, all very different people, were the lucky ones - and their story is true. Following their lives on that day through this book both shocked and saddened me. This is important reporting at it's finest - a piece of work that resonates as strongly today as it did in it's original time, forcing one to consider the significance of atomic warfare from 1945 to the present and into the future.
Four out of five stars for an excellent essay on an important topic. Everybody should read this work once in their lives - especially those of the younger generation who have heard of the bomb but have never considered the reality and human suffering that goes with it. This one will stay with me for the rest of my life.
