Capsule Review

Hiroshima

By John Hersey

Reviewed by Robert Gale Woolbert

October 1947Published on October 1, 1947

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Hiroshima

By John Hersey

Knopf, 1946, 117 pp.

Poetry rather than science or religious faith offers mankind deliverance from the fate implied in the atom bomb, holds Mr. Knight.

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