Hersey, John 1914-1993

Hiroshima by John Hersey ( Book )
213 editions published between 1946 and 2013 in 7 languages and held by 9,272 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Describes the effect of the bombing of Hiroshima on six survivors of the atomic blast

A bell for Adano by John Hersey ( Book )
138 editions published between 1944 and 1994 in 9 languages and held by 4,829 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
An Italian-American major, part of American occupation forces in Sicily during World War II, tries to reform the town in his charge by being decent to people. His efforts are epitomized by his efforts to replace the 700-year-old bell melted down for bullets by the fascists

The wall by John Hersey ( Book )
84 editions published between 1950 and 1988 in English and Undetermined and held by 3,462 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The Wall tells the inspirational story of forty men and women who escape the dehumanizing horror of the Warsaw ghetto. John Hersey's novel documents the Warsaw ghetto both as an symbol of Nazi persecution and as a personal confrontation with cruelty, torture, starvation and humiliation

A single pebble by John Hersey ( Book )
58 editions published between 1956 and 1992 in English and Undetermined and held by 2,884 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
While in China on business in the 1920s, a young American engineer becomes involved in the lives of people who live on a junk on the Yangtze River

Too far to walk by John Hersey ( Book )
24 editions published between 1965 and 1970 in English and Italian and held by 2,108 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A coming-of-age story of a young student at a New England college

The call by John Hersey ( Book )
21 editions published between 1985 and 1986 in English and held by 2,047 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The Algiers Motel incident by John Hersey ( Book )
27 editions published between 1968 and 1998 in English and Undetermined and held by 2,037 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The child buyer : a novel in the form of hearings before the Standing Committee on Education, Welfare, & Public Morality of a certain State Senate, investigating the conspiracy of Mr. Wissey Jones, with others, to purchase a male child by John Hersey ( Book )
42 editions published between 1960 and 1989 in English and Undetermined and held by 2,027 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"Written in the form of a legislative hearing. A satire with overtones of horror on American public education, with special barbs for superintendents, school psychologists, doting teachers, PTA leaders, materialist parents, and ignorant legislators. An exposé of the corruptible ego in each man." "This powerful indictment of the American educational system and the material values placed on intelligence in our society takes the form of a Senate hearing. The Senate investigation concerns the attempts of Wissey Jones to buy Barry Rudd, a precociously brilliant child. Through a series of medical procedures and the use of drugs, the child is transformed into an extremely efficient thinking machine. That the child's personality is of secondary importance compared to the benefits to be derived from this supercomputer is at the crux of the argument. Barry's parents and the local educational authorities are initially opposed but are slowly won over by Jones's appeals to their vanity."

Manzanar = [Ringoen] by John Armor ( Book )
13 editions published between 1988 and 1989 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,984 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Chronicles the internments of Japanese Americans in the United States during the mid 1940s

The war lover by John Hersey ( Book )
30 editions published between 1959 and 1979 in 3 languages and held by 1,931 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
War Lover follows Buzz Morrow, a pilot who glorifies war and his military duties. The author makes the point that wars exist precisely because there are men like Buzz who revel in them. At the same time, he also gives us a detailed account of a Flying Fortress crew based in England during WW II