![]() ![]() Hersey relates the experiences of six people in the city, beginning: "At exactly fifteen minutes past eight in the morning, on August 6th, 1945, Japanese time, at the moment when the atomic bomb flashed above Hiroshima, Miss Toshiko Sasaki, a clerk in the personnel department at the East Asia Tin Works, had just sat down at her place in the plant office and was turning her head to speak to the girl at the next desk." Hersey's prose technique suited the story well as he wrote in a letter to historian Paul Boyer, "The flat style was deliberate, and I still think I was right to adopt it. ![]() A year later, John Hersey's classic Hiroshima was published in the New Yorker subsequently brought out in book form by Knopf, it has never been out of print and has sold more than three million copies. The atomic and plutonium bombs killed 129,000-246,000 people, mostly civilians. This week marks the 70th anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. ![]()
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