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Hiroshima
Av John Hersey
Häftad, 2002
137 kr
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The explosion over Hiroshima of the first nuclear bomb reduced, in an instant, an entire city to rubble and killed over 100,000 men, women and children. It also announced a new era in human history: the Atomic Age. Written only a year after the event, John Hersey's Hiroshima was an immediate …
Hiroshima
A New Edition With a Final Chapter, Written Forty Years After the Explosion
Av John Hersey
Häftad, 2020
198 kr
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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 …
Into the Valley
Marines at Guadalcanal
Av John Hersey
Häftad, 2002
158 kr
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John Hersey (1914–93) was a correspondent for Time and Life magazines when in 1942 he was sent to cover Guadalcanal, the largest of the Solomon Islands in the Western Pacific. While there, Hersey observed a small battle upon which Into the Valley is based. While the battle itself was not of great …
Hiroshima
Av John Hersey
Häftad, 2009
160 kr
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When the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima in August 1945, killing 100,000 men, women and children, it was the beginning of a terrifying new episode in human history. Written only a year after the disaster, John Hersey brought the event vividly alive with this heart-rending account of six …
Hiroshima
Av John Hersey
E-bok, 2019
78 kr
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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 …
Bell for Adano (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
Av John Hersey
E-bok, 2019
173 kr
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This classic novel and winner of the Pulitzer Prize tells the story of an Italian-American major in World War II who wins the love and admiration of the local townspeople when he searches for a replacement for the 700-year-old town bell that had been melted down for bullets by the fascists. …
Wall
Av John Hersey
E-bok, 2019
79 kr
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Riveting and compelling, The Wall tells the inspiring story of forty men and women who escape the dehumanizing horror of the Warsaw ghetto. John Hersey''s novel documents the Warsaw ghetto both as an emblem of Nazi persecution and as a personal confrontation with torture, starvation, humiliation, …
Single Pebble
Av John Hersey
E-bok, 2019
87 kr
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A young American engineer sent to China to inspect the unruly Yangtze River travels up through the river''s gorges searching for dam sites. Pulled on a junk hauled by forty-odd trackers, he is carried, too, into the settled, ancient way of life of the people of the Yangtze -- until the interplay of …
Blues
Av John Hersey
E-bok, 2019
76 kr
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From the revered Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and writer, comes his National Bestseller on one of the world’s oldest and most popular activities, fishing. Presented in narrative form as a conversation between a Fisherman and the Stranger, Hersey draws upon his own experiences and passion as …
Antonietta
Av John Hersey
E-bok, 2019
104 kr
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A saga of a magnificent violin, Antonietta, named after a beautiful woman who was the inspiration of Antonio Stradivari''s later years. As Hersey brings Mozart, Berlioz, and Stravinsky to life, he offers us a marvelous celebration of the changing character and eternal art and power of music.
Key West Tales
Stories
Av John Hersey
E-bok, 2019
87 kr
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Alternating a tale of the past that has become a part of Key West legend with a contemporary story that reflects the pulse of life there today, Hersey weaves in these stories a brilliant human tapestry of the place that means a great deal to him. From the author of A Bell For Adano and Hiroshima …
Fling and Other Stories
Av John Hersey
E-bok, 2019
158 kr
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Writing in a new and different mode, John Hersey, who has enriched us with such memorable novels as A Bell for Adano and The Wall , now gives us his first collection of short stories. A superb and witty storyteller, he invents a variety of voices… A boy remembers his childhood summer on the North …
President
A Minute-by-minute Account of a Week in the Life of Gerald Ford
Av John Hersey
E-bok, 2019
236 kr
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The President has given me permission to take a kind of voyage with him—to watch him closely through a working week….I will be with him, most of the time, hour in and hour out…. At 8:33 on a rainy Monday in March, 1975, John Hersey sits down on a straight cane-backed chair in the Oval Office to …
Marmot Drive
A Novel
Av John Hersey
E-bok, 2019
126 kr
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The Marmot Drive , a novel of extraordinary force and craftsmanship, deals with certain events on two summer days in an out-of-the-way Connecticut village. The occasion is the decision of the villagers of Tunxis to launch their long-debated drive to rid a nearby valley of an infestation of …
Walnut Door
A Novel
Av John Hersey
E-bok, 2019
173 kr
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Writing at the height of his powers, John Hersey has created a taut, dazzling novel of suspense and revelation—in which we watch, mesmerized, the fateful convergence of two lives. A young woman, having fled from her suddenly unbearable “college kid” self—and from the place, even the lover, that …
Under the Eye of the Storm
Av John Hersey
Häftad, 2020
131 kr
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Dr. Tom Medlar’s sailboat, the Harmony , is his pride and joy, and the focus of more lavish and meticulous care than he affords to either his career or his marriage. But then one day Tom takes his wife, Audrey, and their friends, Flick and Dottie Hamden, out for a pleasure cruise and into the …
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An American Missionary in China
Av John Hersey
E-bok, 2019
158 kr
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An American missionary in China, David Treadup, is the protagonist of John Hersey’s magnificent novel, a novel whose richness of character, color, and incident both explores the evangelical impulse in this country—the peculiarly American spirit of wanting to help others—and reflects the whole …
Conspiracy
A Novel
Av John Hersey
E-bok, 2019
126 kr
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Nero’s secret police believe they have come on the first hints of a plot against the emperor’s life. Once promising and gifted—friend of poets, pupil of the great Seneca—Nero has now bloodied himself and grown fat on power, and he has turned his back on the men of intellect who used to be his …
Too Far to Walk
Av John Hersey
Häftad, 2020
156 kr
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John Fist is a talented overachiever who has become restless and bored in his second year at Sheldon, an elite New England college. He is losing motivation, increasingly finding it “too far to walk” to his philosophy class across campus. So when the devil in sophomore’s clothing (a fellow student …
Here to Stay
Av John Hersey
E-bok, 2019
252 kr
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In Here to Stay John Hersey tells of episodes in the past twenty years in which Man has courageously risen above desperate situations and shown his determination to survive despite the threats of the nuclear age. Mr. Hersey first tells the story of an old lady marooned on a rooftop amidst floods …
War Lover
A Novel
Av John Hersey
E-bok, 2019
236 kr
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In the immediate sense, this long, eventful and agonizingly suspenseful novel shows what fear, secret hidden fear, can do to even one of those seeming heroes, a war lover. In the longer view, however, this may come to be regarded as the great and ultimate anti-war novel of our time. The scene is an …
My Petition For More Space
A Novel
Av John Hersey
E-bok, 2019
79 kr
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A street in New Haven. A line of people, blocks long, more closely packed than the rush-hour subways of the good old times. Poynter has been on the line since before dawn, as are thousands of others, pressed together, waiting their turns at the window to present their individual petitions. His is …
Life Sketches
Av John Hersey
E-bok, 2019
236 kr
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This collection—harvest of a lifetime of brilliant reportage and reflection—brings together the most memorable biographical pieces John Hersey has written over the past fifty years. His subjects range from Sinclair Lewis, for whom the twenty-three-year-old Hersey was secretary, and the young John …
Child Buyer
A Novel
Av John Hersey
E-bok, 2019
79 kr
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An imaginary, utterly absorbing record of the investigations of the Committee on Education, Welfare, and Public Morality of an unnamed state senate into the activities of Mr. Wissey Jones, who has come to the town of Pequot on what he says is urgent defense business. The hearings develop the …
White Lotus
Av John Hersey
E-bok, 2019
110 kr
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Not too far from now, in a world very like our own, the oppressors have changed places with the oppressed. After their defeat in the Yellow War, the white people of America are thrust into a brutally altered reality. They are hunted like wild beasts and drive like cattle, transported in reeking …
Too Far to Walk
A Novel
Av John Hersey
E-bok, 2019
87 kr
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Is there anywhere a young man so dull he would not sell his soul for experience? In this striking new novel, quite different from anythign he has written before, John Hersey probes deeply, but with rich humor, into the aimlessness, boredom, and rebellion of a group of undergraduates in a New Englad …
Under the Eye of the Storm
A Novel
Av John Hersey
E-bok, 2019
87 kr
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This is a tale of the sea, of two men and their wives on a sailboat, moving toward the heart of a great storm. It is an adventure story that carries four travelers on the yawl Harmony from Edgartown to Menemsha to Block Island and thence out into a huge, dark cone of uncertainty. In the modulating …
