John Hersey
1) Hiroshima
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On August 6, 1945, Hiroshima was destroyed by the first atom bomb ever dropped on a city. This book, John Hersey's journalistic masterpiece, tells what happened on that day. Told through the memories of survivors, this timeless, powerful and compassionate document has become a classic "that stirs the conscience of humanity" (The New York Times). Almost four decades after the original publication of this celebrated book, John Hersey went back to Hiroshima...
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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....
4) Blues
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A seasoned fisherman takes a man he has just met on the dock with him to catch bluefish off the coast of Martha's Vineyard, where they discuss fishing and the life cycle of the sea.
