An insight to the beginnings of WWII, and personal accounts of wartime actions. In "Survival," John Hersey introduces us to Lt. John F. Kennedy's exploits after Pt-109 was split in two by a Japanese destroyer. In "Hiroshima," Hersey gives us a view of the lives of six people after the atomic bomb was dropped.

Articles and dispatches written by literate correspondents to this literary magazine during WWII. Writing by Hersey, Liebling, Panter-Downes, Lardner, Flanner and other contributors of note. Wide variety of subjects from D-Day on Iwo Jima by John Gardner to a piece on children who had been evacuated from London to the safety of the U.S. by Brendan Gill. ( )