Tuesday, September 6, 2016

First Lines: John Hersey - Hiroshima


At exactly fifteens minutes past eight in the morning, on August 6, 1945, Japanese time, at the moment, when the atomic bomb flashed over Hiroshima, Miss Toshiko Sasaki, a clerk in the personnel department of the East Asia Tin Works, had just sat down at her place in the plant office and was turning her head to speak to the girl at the next desk.

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