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1	Hiroshima more books like this by John Hersey add to wishlist The most famous work of the Pulitzer Prizewinning novelist and reporter. An account of the bombing of Hiroshima in 1945, told from the perspective of six survivors, it is written in a stark, objective voice that manages to be precise and all the more vivid for its understatement of events. A profoundly influential work that have long since been ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.75! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Blues more books like this by John Hersey add to wishlist A disquisition on the art of fishing, from the Nobel Prize-winning novelist and reporter. Written in the form of a dialogue between the "Fisherman" and the "Stranger," who discuss fishing and many unrelated topics in a not-too-carefully organized way, it was originally published in the "New Yorker". see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.98! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Wall more books like this by J Hersey add to wishlist A novel of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, by the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and reporter. Written in the form of a diary, it relates the conditions of the doomed Jews of Poland during World War II from the perspective of a Resistance fighter living behind the "wall" that sealed the Warsaw Ghetto off from the rest of the city. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Antonietta more books like this by John Hersey add to wishlist A saga of a magnificent violin, Antonietta, named after a beautiful woman who was the inspiration of Antonio Stradivari's later years. In a masterpiece of historical imagination, Hersey traces the instrument's progress and influence upon owners, musicians, and composers alike--giving us a marvelous celebration of the changing character and eternal ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
5	The Algiers Motel incident more books like this by John Hersey add to wishlist This volume provides an account of the Algier's Motel incident in 1967, when three black men were killed and nine other people brutally beaten in the Algiers Motel by, as the author describes it, an "aggregate of Detroit police, Michigan State Troopers, National Guardsmen and private guards who had been directed to the scene" following a telephone ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.63! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Bell for Adano more books like this by John Hersey add to wishlist An Italian-American major in World War II wins the love and admiration of the local townspeople when he searches for a replacement for the 700 year-old town bell that had been melted down for bullets by the fascists. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.94! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	Key West Tales: Stories more books like this by John Hersey add to wishlist A collection of short stories by the American novelist and Pulitzer Prize winner. Set mainly in Key West, Florida (Hersey's home in his later years), it was published shortly after his death. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.00! \| first editions
8	A Single Pebble more books like this by John Hersey add to wishlist The story of a rambling voyage down the Yangtzee river into parts unknown. A young American engineer travels to China in the late 1940s with the idea of surveying the Yangtzee River for the construction of a dam. The farther he progresses inland, the more disastrous the trip becomes and the less apparent the need or purpose of a dam appears to him ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.95! \| first editions \| SVS
9	White Lotus more books like this by John Hersey add to wishlist An allegorical novel by the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and reporter. In a world in which whites have been enslaved by Orientals, a young girl named White Lotus is captured in Arizona and transported to China. After being sold into slavery, she survives a vast Chinese civil war and is emancipated upon its conclusion. Later she abandons her ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $99.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	Into the Valley: A Skirmish of more books like this by John Hersey add to wishlist The story, of one company of marines during a battle on Guadalcanal, is simply and briefly told--rich with detail about the sights and sounds of the jungle, the conversations of men waiting for battle, and the less than glamorous details of the fight. 16 black and white sketches. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.00! \| first editions \| SVS
11	Under the eye of the storm by John Hersey add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12	Lewis: Main Street and Babbitt more books like this by Sinclair Lewis, Altman, John Hersey (Editor) add to wishlist Together in one volume, the famous satirical novels of America's first Nobel Prize winner for literature. In Main Street and Babbitt, Sinclair Lewis created an original and provocative portrait of American society that revealed as never before the complacency and conformity of middle-class life in America. Pulitzer Prize-winner Hersey served as ... see all copies from $5.00! new only from $24.00! \| first editions \| SVS
13	The call more books like this by John Hersey add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
14	The war lover more books like this by John Hersey add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
15	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. more books like this by John Hersey add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
16	Of Men and War more books like this by John Hersey add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $30.88! \| first editions \| SVS
17	Into the valley, a skirmish of the marines more books like this by John Hersey add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $18.50! \| signed copies \| first editions
18	Fling and Other Stories by John Hersey add to wishlist The first published collection of short fiction from the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and reporter. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions
19	Life Sketches more books like this by John Hersey add to wishlist A collection of journalistic writings, mostly published originally in the "New Yorker", by the celebrated novelist and reporter. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.90! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
20	The conspiracy : a novel by John Hersey add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $45.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
21	The Child Buyer more books like this by John Hersey add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $25.48! \| signed copies \| first editions
22	Into the Valley: Marines at Guadalcanal more books like this by John Hersey, Donald L Dickson, Col. (Illustrator) add to wishlist John Hersey (1914--93) was a correspondent for Time and Life magazines when in 1942 he was sent to cover Guadalcanal, the largest of the Solomon Islands in the Western Pacific. While there, Hersey observed a small battle upon which Into the Valley is based. While the battle itself was not of great significance, Hersey gives insightful details ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.23! \| SVS
23	My Petition for More Space more books like this by John Hersey add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
24	Creating Contagious Leadership by John Hersey add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.25! \| signed copies
25	The Conspiracy by John Hersey add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions

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