Not a light reading, not at all. I was deeply moved by the photographs. The narrative is not very good, at least to me. It is about the lives of 6 different people (doctors, mother, priest; all surivors) and how they went thru before, during and after the atomic bomb. I think it needed "more feeling...
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 consola...
Its one of those books which makes it difficult to write the correct words about it! Its just so simple. It opens a window to how the A-bombing affected people in Hiroshima. Its about people and not the act, or the people who decided to drop the bomb or why.A must read for all!
Every American should read this book to understand that when people say "Freedom isn't free," we're not the only ones bearing the cost. Hundreds of thousands of Japanese — normal people like you and me, getting up, going to work, getting their children off to school — paid the cost of ending World W...
This was just ok for me.I was not as enticed as others were. I think it was because of my field of allied health. I am in the Radiology Department and so I think my knowledge kind of hindered me more than anything, unfortunately.I was expecting more of the conditions and the after effects of the act...
Haunting. Gut-wrenching.Utterly shame-enducing.In Hiroshima Hersey has cobbled together the tales of a handful of survivors and woven them effortlessly through his narrative to create a spellbinding history lesson not to be forgotten. The engrossing eye-witness stories are horrifying, too real, and ...
I discovered this book in a dumpster when I was in the 7th grade. It was my first introduction to the concept of American Imperialism. Though Hersey's focus is on the stories following the dropping of the bomb, my 13 year old brain focused on the question of "why?"I never knew there was an update wi...
Hiroshima was a summer reading book for me during high school. It's been quite a few years since I've read it, but I do remember enough to give a bit of a review.This book is graphic - skin melting off, radiation poisoning graphic. If you have an aversion to graphic books, this is definitely not the...
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