Book review of Hiroshima
John Hersey was an American author and journalist who was born in Tianjin, China. His parents were missionaries in Tianjin where he lived until the age of ten. He lived from 1914 to 1993. Hersey was well known for his ability to write about the tragedies of war. Hersey was educated at Yale University and Clare College of the University of Cambridge. Throughout World War II, Hersey served as the Time magazine war correspondent in Europe and the Pacific. He later became the senior editor of Life magazine. He wrote numerous books during his lifetime. Some of his books include Men on Bataan and Into the Valley, both are accounts of the war in the Pacific. He also wrote the Pulitzer Prize winning A Bell for Adano, which was a novel about the Allied occupation of Italy. His book Hiroshima is a graphic report of the atomic bomb that was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. He has many other books to his credit, a majority of which are about war time subjects.At exactly 8:15 in the morning on August 6, 1945 the first ever atomic bomb flashed above the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The city size had shrunken to about 245,000 from about 380,000 before the war ha
He spent 18 hours straight after the bombing helping the thousands of victims who were coming to the hospital. It is also possible that when they made these statements they were still too terrified to think about it and thus did not seem to care as much. Fujii was also very indifferent about the use of it and stated, "There's nothing to be done about it now. He goes from person to person as the events they were involved in took place. I also found it interesting how some people were severely injured and burned from the bomb and others were completely unaffected. The stories of the survivors would give a natural feeling of sympathy for the Japanese, but I believe that it is not the intention of the author. The book is well written and put together in an interesting way which would make most people want to continue reading it. The information was directly obtained from the survivors of the bombing themselves. Some of the other people he talks about do make an impression on you. The reaction of the Japanese and their ideas of what had happened were also interesting. They were however unsure to whether the evil consequences that came about might have far exceeded the good results. Kiyoshi Tanimoto was a pastor at a Hiroshima Methodist Church. This sticks out in my mind and seems to make the tragedies of war seem more significant and real. He was the proprietor of a one-doctor hospital who was relaxing at the time of the bombing.
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