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How John Hersey’s Hiroshima Revealed the Horror of the Bomb — BBC Magazine

He focused on the stories of ordinary people
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Seventy years ago, The New Yorker devoted all of its editorial pages to just one story: the 30,000-word report, Hiroshima, by John Hersey. As the BBC magazine reports, it was a story that went viral before the Internet was a glimmer in anyone’s eye. Hersey was a novelist (A …