Litterater Thread

[Runnin]

Finally got around to this book, considered one of the finest pieces of journalism of the 20th century and not at all what I was expecting. It's the story of 6 survivors of the Hiroshima bomb, one a German priest, what they saw and experienced first hand and what happened to them in the subsequent days, weeks, months and years. Could not put it down. I loved the style, plain without any comment by the author, other than translating their stories into English. The work was quite a feat too. He got the assignment in May 1946 and it ran full length in the August 31 issue of The New Yorker the same year for the 1 year anniversary of the bomb. 3 months to fly over, find and interview the survivors and write the piece. That's a pro. I guess that's why he won a Pulitzer Prize.