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A selection of stories from The New Yorker's archive. View this message on a Web browser.   Perspectives on War The United States bombed Hiroshima seventy years ago this month, on August 6, 1945. Later that year, John Hersey, a reporter for The New Yorker, travelled to Japan to write about the bombing and its aftermath. When “Hiroshima” was published, a year later, it filled a whole issue of the magazine, and it told the story of the bombing from six different points of view. In that way, it captured something fundamental about war. War seems impersonal, but its burdens are shouldered by individuals. No one sees the whole of it. It’s always, ultimately, a matter of perspective. This week, we’ve assembled a collection of archive pieces called “Perspectives on War.” Many of them, like “Hiroshima,” attempt to come to grips with war’s vastness and violence. “Soldiers’ Stories,” the most recent piece in the collection, is a selection of writings by troops stationed in Iraq. Their writing is full of questions. They want to know what their war means, and how their actions fit into the larger picture. “I wonder often what they think about all of this,” one soldier writes, about a group of children he met in Iraq. Judging from these pieces, those kinds of questions are an inevitable part of war. The work of answering them continues long after the battle is over. —Erin Overbey and Joshua Rothman, Archivists  DISPATCHES FROM IRAQJUNE 12, 2006 SOLDIERS’ STORIES BY VARIOUS AUTHORS  “The worst thing here is not the searing heat or the cold nights. It’s the waiting. Waiting for the wind to quit blowing and the sand to quit grinding against your skin . . . .” ANNALS OF WARJUNE 20, 1988 AN AMERICAN SOLDIER IN VIETNAM I—THE ROOSTER AND THE TIGER BY NEIL SHEEHAN  John Vann had no physical fear. In the course of the decade, he was to acquire a reputation for invulnerability. Time and again, he took risks that killed other men, and he always survived. The odds, he said, did not apply to him. Paid Post Let’s Go! Introducing the new, improved Goings On About Town app. Sponsored by MasterCard®. Download now.

A REPORTER AT LARGEJANUARY 22, 1972 COVERUP—I BY SEYMOUR M. HERSH  The G.I.s mainly kept to themselves what they had done, but there had been other witnesses to the atrocity—American helicopter pilots and Vietnamese civilians. Within four months, many details had been uncovered by Army investigations.

A REPORTER AT LARGEFEBRUARY 16, 1963 EICHMANN IN JERUSALEM BY HANNAH ARENDT  On trial are his deeds, not the sufferings of the Jews, not the German people or mankind, not even anti-Semitism and racism.

A REPORTER AT LARGESEPTEMBER 7, 1946 EXTRAORDINARY EXILE BY REBECCA WEST  Something is happening all over the world; one reads of it constantly in the newspapers, but here in Nuremberg one can feel it. A machine is running down, a great machine, the greatest machine that has ever been created—the war machine, by which mankind, in spite of its infirmity of purpose and its frequent desire for death, has defended its life.

A REPORTER AT LARGEAUGUST 31, 1946 HIROSHIMA BY JOHN HERSEY  A hundred thousand people were killed by the atomic bomb, and these six were among the survivors. They still wonder why they lived when so many others died. Each of them counts many small items of chance or volition—a step taken in time, a decision to go indoors, catching one streetcar instead of the next—that spared him.

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