John Hersey
1) Hiroshima
Author
Lexile measure
1190L
Language
English
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Description
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.
Author
Pub. Date
1991
Physical Desc
132 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
Find out how war smells, looks, and feels to fighting men, and how courage grows from their desperate will to live. These are five true stories of World War II.
1. Survival
2. The Battle of the River
3. Nine Men on a Four-Man Raft
4. Borie's Last Battle
5. Front Seats at Sea War
A famous war correspondent takes readers aboard John F. Kennedy's doomed PT-109, into the horror of Guadalcanal, and on onto a death raft in the Southwest Pacific....
Author
Pub. Date
1965
Edition
Bantan pathfinder ed.
Physical Desc
vi, 245 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1943, the American Major Victor Joppolo finds himself the civil affairs officer-the mayor-of a small town in Sicily. Equipped with the rulebook, How to Bring American Democracy to Liberated Territories, he sets about bringing choices to a people whose every recent activity had been dictated. Asking them what the town needs most, he is answered: give the town back its spirit-a bell to replace the 700-year-old one that was melted down for bullets....
4) The wall
Author
Pub. Date
1988
Edition
1st Vintage Books ed.
Physical Desc
632 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English