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Hiroshima

John Hersey

Paperback | Pages: 152 pages

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Title	:	Hiroshima
Author	:	John Hersey
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Reprint
Pages	:	Pages: 152 pages
Published	:	March 4th 1989 by Vintage (first published 1946)
Categories	:	History. Nonfiction. Classics. War. Cultural. Japan. World War II

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On August 6, 1945, Hiroshima was destroyed by the first atom bomb ever dropped on a city. This book, John Hersey's journalistic masterpiece, tells what happened on that day. Told through the memories of survivors, this timeless, powerful and compassionate document has become a classic "that stirs the conscience of humanity" (The New York Times). Almost four decades after the original publication of this celebrated book, John Hersey went back to Hiroshima in search of the people whose stories he had told.  His account of what he discovered about them is now the eloquent and moving final chapter of Hiroshima .

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Original Title:	Hiroshima
ISBN:	0679721037 (ISBN13: 9780679721031)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Hiroshima,1945(Japan)

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I read this up at grandmother's cottage on Lake Michigan during summer break from high school. I had previously read quite a bit of near-future science fiction describing the effects of nuclear blasts, but never something so long describing real effects on real people. The fact that its author had been a war correspondent, involved, like my father, in campaigns on both theatres and awarded a medal for heroism on Guadalcanal, the fact that he had reason to be prejudiced against the Japanese, just

This is one of those books I meant to read years ago but never found the time, even considering the short length. I knew the book began as an article Hersey published in The New Yorker, roughly one year after the events described. I am surprised this book did not effect me more. Not that I planned to be lost in newly discovered grief but I am afraid that the knowledge I already possessed about this period deadened my reaction to Hersey's words. I have read more terrifying accounts but I am sure

"Important" is the first word that comes to mind. Everyone should occasionally read books that remind us of the human costs of war, as it's easy to grow complacent.

'When he had penetrated the bushes, he saw there were about twenty men, and they were all in exactly the same nightmarish state: their faces were wholly burned, their eyesockets were hollow, the fluid from their melted eyes had run down their cheeks. [...] Their mouths were mere swollen, pus-covered wounds, which they could not bear to stretch enough to admit the spout of the teapot.' (pp.51-52)Really powerful account of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, its immediate impact on

It seems almost indecent to put a rating on this book, I feel as if I am giving all these poor people's horrific suffering an excellent. Yet this is a very powerful book, told in a matter of fact, reporting tone and it is an account that puts a human face to this devastation. By following certain survivors we come to see and in my case to care greatly about these poor people. How much suffering and horror this bomb caused, on innocent people at the mercy of their emperor's decisions. People like

I was 2 when Chernobyl blew up, it was a perfect sunny day (or so I'm told). The airborne nuclear waste was making its way through Poland over to Norway. My parents were pruning blackberry bushes, getting weeds out from between the carrots and the parsnips, blissfully unaware of the horrors going on few hundred km to the east. Little Kasia was helping them out pulling out baby beets with a great enthusiasm. Basking in the toxic sun. The reactor collapse was made public days after the explosion

I suspect that most people have at some point in their lives contemplated the implications of their hometown being hit by a nuclear weapon. There are only two cities on earth that have actually had to confront that terrifying experience: Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This book is an account of the bombing of Hiroshima from six survivors, as well as a retrospective on their lives published four decades later. It is truly a vision of a world transformed into hell. I will not get into the pornographic