Hiroshima (Paperback)

from ksmyth

I reread this book after many years and found it just as powerful as I did the first time Hersey wrote his book in 1946, focusing on six survivors of the August 6th bombing. The survivors came from various walks of life and their degree of injury from the bombing also varied. Hersey walks the rea...

from dele2451

A succinct and stark historical account of the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan as experienced by 6 blast survivors. The cover has a statement by the Saturday Review of Literature which states "Everyone able to read should read it." While it may be 65 years after the event, I'd have to say...

from ericlee

John Hersey's account of the lives of six survivors of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima was first published just a year after the events. Despite the passage of more than seventy years, the work endures, as moving now as it was when first published in 1946. The book was updated forty years later, ...

from speedy74

Hershey recounts the memories of six survivors following the dropping of the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. The last chapter of the book, "The Aftermath," details Hershey's work four decades later when he went back to Hiroshima to see the survivors again. Some of the details ar...

from bookczuk

The thing that strikes me most when reading this is how completely unknown this kind of horror was at the time. I have grown up in the atomic age, and have vivid memories of "duck and cover" and backyard bomb shelters. When the bomb fell on Hiroshima, it was something the world had never experien...