Father wilhelm kleinsorge biography of donald

  • Hiroshima is a book by American author John Hersey.
  • John Hersey's piece exploring how six survivors experienced the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, and its aftermath.
  • A German Jesuit priest living in Hiroshima, Father Kleinsorge selflessly comforts many of the dying and wounded in the immediate aftermath of the bombing.

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    Part 1 - Letter from Fr. Wilhelm Kleinsorge SJ

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    Letter from Fr. Wilhelm Kleinsorge SJ

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    A letter from Fr. Wilhelm Kleinsorge SJ (), Hiroshima, to Fr. Gerald McCann OFM Cap., Capuchin Publications Office, Dublin. Kleinsorge was a German Jesuit missionary who survived the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima in Japan on 6 August He was one of at least four Jesuit priests living in the Japanese city at the time of the attack. Miraculously, their church (located just one kilometre from ground zero) largely withstood the explosion and all four missionaries survived. It is believed that the solidity of the church and the adjoining Jesuit mission house contributed to their survival as many of the surrounding wooden buildings were simply obliterated. As noted in his letter, Kleinsorge continued to suffer from the lingering effects o

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    How John Hersey's Hiroshima revealed the horror of the bomb

    The BBC had also invited John Hersey to be interviewed and his cabled reply is in the BBC archives:

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    By November, okänt was published in book form. It was translated quickly into many languages and a braille edition was released. However, in Japan, Gen Douglas MacArthur - the s

  • father wilhelm kleinsorge biography of donald

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    Hiroshima (book)

    book by John Hersey

    Hiroshima is a book by American author John Hersey. It tells the stories of six survivors of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. It is regarded as one of the earliest examples of New Journalism, in which the story-telling techniques of fiction are adapted to non-fiction reporting.[1]

    The work was originally published in The New Yorker, which had planned to run it over four issues but instead dedicated the entire edition of August 31, , to a single article.[2] Less than two months later, the article was printed as a book by Alfred A. Knopf. Never out of print,[3] it has sold more than three million copies.[1][4] "Its story became a part of our ceaseless thinking about world wars and nuclear holocaust," New Yorker essayist Roger Angell wrote in [1]

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    Before writing Hiroshima, Hersey had been a war correspondent in the field, writing for Life magazine