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Hiroshima Editorial Review:
On August 6, 1945, Hiroshima was destroyed by the first atomic bomb ever dropped on a city. This book tells what happened on that day, told through the memoirs of survivors.
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8th Grade Review
This book is about the nuclear bomb that dropped on Hiroshima, Japan. It's about a handful of people who survived the bomb and how they helped other people to survive too. They go through lots of pain and sickness but still survived to tell about it, at the end of the book it has the characters from the book (who were based on real people) real eye-witness accounts from them personally. This is a good book if you are learning a bout World War 2 or learning about the effects of the atomic bomb.
Where is my book?
I ordered this book, "Hiroshima" about 3 weeks ago and I still have not received it in the mail. The distributor said it would take 3-15 days and it has been way beyond this range. Poor service. I do not recommend this seller.
Bright light
I have heard a student say 'Why not Nagasaki? There were two bombs.' (Isn't Hiroshima enough is my thought rejoinder.)
On that date, August 6, 1945, a B-29 raid was feared. Only Hiroshima and Kyoto had been spared B-29 attacks. Hiroshima is fan-shaped. Japanese radar detects only three planes. Almost no one in Hiroshima hears any noise of a bomb. The maimed, wounded, and dying go to the Red Cross Hospital. Ultimately ten thousand people seek treatment. It resembles an invasion.
Afterwards Hiroshima is a dreadful miasma. A child wants to know why it is night already. A private hospital seems to be in the river. One survivor's hair turns white two months after the explosion. The following day the President of the United States identifies the bomb as atomic. Later people come down with radiation sickness.
A uranium bomb exploded at Hiroshima, and a more powerful plutonium bomb at Nagasaki. The author's narrative focuses on six Hiroshima victims, persons whose lives would never be the same. Waging total war encompasses civilian casualties. Hersey is surprised that many of the victims aren't much concerned with the ethics of the bombing.
Excerpts of this superior journalistic work have made their way into American textbooks. The trend is heartening.
Interesting glimpse into what it was like on that day
Hersey tells the story of several individuals who survived the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
What makes the book so fascinating is the very detailed, personal experiences of these people; what they were doing, what they thought when they saw the flash, what their injuries were, what they did in the minutes and hours and months after the bomb hit.
The one thing I didn't like was that it was told in the 3rd person. I would have liked to have read those individuals accounts in their own words (but of course, translated).
Also, because the various accounts were from people who all had some sort of connection with each other (and why were most of them ministers or doctors), I got the impression I wasn't getting a representative sample. I also would have liked to have learned more about these individuals views on the war, the bomb, Americans and the aftermath of it all.
Overall, though, a very interesting read.
A history book for non-history majors
A small but mighty book (154 pages) that tells the story of Hiroshima before, during and after the atom bomb. Told in a matter-of-fact manner, it follows 6 survivors from beginning to present day. The book also chronicles the city's rebuilding and the rebuilding of the relationship between the US and Japan. Pros: cheep, small, easy to read in pieces and impactfull!
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