FIRST VINTAGE BOOKS EDITION
Copyright © 1944, 1946, © 1955, 1957, 1962 by John Hersey; 1944, 1945 by Time, Inc.
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 1944.
Vintage and colophon are registered trademarks of Penguin Random House LLC.
The Library of Congress has cataloged the Knopf edition as follows:
Ebook ISBN 9780593080870
Of the material in this book, the following articles-some in slightly different form-were first published in The New Yorker: “Over the Mad River,” “Survival,” “Journey Toward a Sense of Being Treated Well,” and “Hiroshima.”
The following—in somewhat different form-were first published in Life: “Joe is Home Now,” “A Short Talk with Erlanger,” and “Prisoner 339, Klooga.”
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