FIRST VINTAGE BOOKS EDITION

Copyright © 1953 by John Hersey

All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York, and distributed in Canada by Random House of Canada, a division of Penguin Random House Canada Limited, Toronto. Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York, in 1953, and simultaneously in Canada by McClelland & Stewart Limited.

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Ebook ISBN 9780593080818

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