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Am Morgen des 6. August 1945 warf eine B-29 der amerikanischen Luftwaffe über Hiroshima die erste Atombombe ab. Die gewaltige Explosion und die anschließenden Hitzewellen verwandeln die Stadt in ein Inferno. Die ganze Wahrheit über die unvorstellbare Zerstörungskraft der neuen Geheimwaffe wird vor der Weltöffentlichkeit zunächst vertuscht... ein fesselndes Feature von David Bernet.

A journalistic masterpiece. John Hersey transports us back to the streets of Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945 - the day the city was destroyed by the first atomic bomb. Told through the memories of six survivors, Hiroshima is a timeless, powerful classic that will awaken your heart and your compassion. In this new edition, Hersey returns to Hiroshima to find the survivors - and to tell their fates in an eloquent and moving final chapter.

The late Dr. Michihiko Hachiya was director of the Hiroshima Communications Hospital when the world's first atomic bomb was dropped on the city. Though his responsibilities in the appalling chaos of a devastated city were awesome, he found time to record the story daily, with compassion and tenderness. Dr. Hachiya's compelling diary was originally published by the UNC Press in 1955, with the help of Dr. Warner Wells of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

The atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki killed more than 100,000 instantly, mostly women, children, and the elderly. Many hundreds of thousands more succumbed to their horrific injuries later, or slowly perished of radiation-related sickness. Yet the bombs were "our least abhorrent choice", American leaders claimed at the time - and still today most people believe they ended the Pacific War and saved millions of American and Japanese lives.

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author John Hersey's seminal work of narrative nonfiction which has defined the way we think about nuclear warfare. “One of the great classics of the war" (The New Republic) that tells what happened in Hiroshima during World War II through the...

One of Washington Post's 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction From 2024 The first volume in a two-book series about each of the atomic bomb drops that ended the Pacific War based on years of irreplicable personal interviews with survivors to tell a story of devastation and resilience In this vividly...

'Really outstanding' Jonathan Dimbleby 'Extraordinary and utterly absorbing' Patrick Bishop 'Wonderful material' Saul David 'Profoundly thought-provoking' James Holland 'Impeccably researched' Spectator At 8:15 a.m. on August 6th, 1945, the Japanese port city of Hiroshima was struck by the...

Das Hörbuch schildert Eindrücke eines Besuchs in Hiroshima zehn Jahre nach dem Abwurf der Atombombe. Zitate und Erinnerungen von Zeitzeugen sowie Daten über die Wirkung und die Spätfolgen vermitteln ein eindringliches Bild von den verheerenden Auswirkungen auf die Stadt und seine Bewohner.