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INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR AND THE ENOLA GAY PILOT (WORLD WAR II.) HERSEY, JOHN. Hiroshima. Inscribed by Hersey and Paul W. Tibbets, both to Maney Henderson, the former with a quote from the book, the latter with a lengthy inscription disagreeing with Hersey and asserting that "there is no morality in warfare." 8vo, publisher's cloth; dust jacket, worn at edges. New York, 1946 [the inscriptions dated 1985]
INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR AND THE ENOLA GAY PILOT (WORLD WAR II.) HERSEY, JOHN. Hiroshima. Inscribed by Hersey and Paul W. Tibbets, both to Maney Henderson, the former with a quote from the book, the latter with a lengthy inscription disagreeing with Hersey and asserting that "there is no morality in warfare." 8vo, publisher's cloth; dust jacket, worn at edges. New York, 1946 [the inscriptions dated 1985]
- Notes: The Tibbets inscription: "Forty years of hindsight and rationalization as to the use of the weapons (bombs) has failed to produce a consensus as to 'justified or unjustified.' The next forty will do little more... Total war, limited war, guerrilla war or skirmish, serve a 'just purpose' only in the mind of the initiator. There is no morality in warfare and regrettably there is no discrimination; innocents as well as soldiers get killed. As General Sherman once said 'War is hell.'"
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