Drawing on memoirs, works of history (including John Hersey’s 1946 opus ... 29 bomber tasked with dropping its atomic payload over Hiroshima and banking sharply to get out of range before ...

An unidentified man stands next to a tiled fireplace where a house once stood in Hiroshima, Japan, on Sept. 7, 1945. (Stanley Troutman/AP) Review by Karin Tanabe When visitors step inside the ...

(Mainichi/Akiko Hirose) HIROSHIMA -- A grandson of Pulitzer Prize-winning American author John Hersey (1914-1993), who reported on Hiroshima in 1946 by interviewing A-bomb survivors, recently ...

On Aug. 6, 1945, the United States dropped a nuclear weapon on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. In the spring of 1946, writer John Hersey went to Japan to interview some survivors. The result was ...

and Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist John Hersey came together for a project of dire importance — to preserve the stories of those who had survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.