The Wall(Hersey) Summary
John Hersey

The Wall Summary

During World War II John Hersey had been more anti-Japanese than anti-Nazi. He had seen the results of Japanese atrocities before the Americans entered World War II. Visiting Hiroshima, he realized the enormous suffering of civilians, which he documented in his nonfiction book Hiroshima (1946).

In the closing years of the war he also toured the ruins of the Warsaw Ghetto, and the Lodz and Tallin ghettos as well as...

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