For every great historical fiction event, seemingly, at least one reporter writes an eyewitness account of such power and literary weight that it becomes joined with its subject in our minds-George Orwell's and the Spani...For every great historical fiction event, seemingly, at least one reporter writes an eyewitness account of such power and literary weight that it becomes joined with its subject in our minds-George Orwell's and the Spanish civil war. John Hersey's and the dropping of the first atomic bomb.