Hiroshima (Paperback)

from oacevedo

I read this book in high school, but have never forgotten it. If everyone read Hiroshima, would we cry out against nuclear proliferation? I would say yes. The description of scenes immediately after the fall of the bomb, and the scenes of its effects are stamped forever in my mind. This work of (...

from engpunk77

A journalist captures the accounts of six H-bomb survivors. Hersey produced this "most sifnificant piece of journalism of modern times" (1946) shortly after the bombing of Hiroshima. This descriptive, gut-wrenching, retelling of the events as experienced by six survivors will touch your soul. I c...

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 Veeralpadhiar

Some acts are unjustifiable no matter how hard the perpetrators try to rationalize them. Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are undeniably among those. I firmly believe that the War Crimes Trials after World War-II should have been conducted even on some men of the Allied powers. If it's any conso...

from 19vatermit64

Hiroshima: With a Final Chapter Written Forty Years After the Explosion John Hersey Yesterday marks the sixty-seventh anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. It seemed to pass unnoticed in the media. I first read John Hersey's Hiroshima in 1976, and at the time I was n...