Hiroshima

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Summary: Hiroshima
Review: it is the most boring book i have ever read! it is a long news paper article! it goes by sooo slow! if it wasnt for the test i have on it wed. i would of dropped it the first 5 pages! it only gets slower!

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Summary: Should be compulsory reading
Review: While some have pointed out that the author's cutting from one story to another makes it difficult to read, this book is a must read regardless.

If you want to have some idea the kind of horror experienced by the victims of Hiroshima then this book is it. To my mind despite the horrific injuries sustained by the victims the thing that seems most devastating is the complete incomprehension as to what has happened to them, and what is going on. The survivors are without any infrastructure injured and totally ignorant of what they are going through.

All in all a gripping account. The plain facts are laid out and they are compelling.

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Summary: Wartime Novel
Review: Hiroshima, by John Hersey, is about the atomic bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima and what happened to six people before and after the explosion. Their names are Miss. Toshiko Sasaki, Dr. Masakazu Fujii, Mrs. Hatsuyo Nakamura, Father Wilhelm Kleinsorge, Dr. Terufumi Sasaki and the Rev. Mr. Kiyoshi Tanimoto. Hiroshima is a very graphic book with sickening descriptions. I think that some of these descriptions were as graphic as the ones in The Hot Zone, by Richard Preston. "Pus oozed out of her wound, and soon the whole pillow was covered with it."(Pg.81) is just one of the many gory descriptions from Hiroshima.

I thought that Hiroshima had its ups and downs. For one, the book was very confusing because there were lots of people and the story kept switching from on person to another. I found myself lost in a a sea of words at times because of this. That was the main bad facet of the book. On the other hand, I thought the book was good because when you did understand what was happening, you felt as if you were actually there because the descriptions in Hiroshima were so vivid. Also, I like the book because it showed you what actually happened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki and what could happen if a nuclear war broke out. Overall, I though Hiroshima was a good book. I would recommend this book to people who like History and especially WW2.

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Summary: Hiroshima in my words
Review: I read "Hiroshima" as a class project and I totally loved it. I learned a lot about the Atomic bomb in Hiroshima and what the helpless survirors had to do to survive. It really interest me the way residence helped eachother as much as possible and tried to save as many pure lives as possible. I also became familiar with the Atomic bomb in Hiroshima, why, when, and how it happenend. John Hersey did a great job in this novel and I would like to compliment him on a job well done. I am very pleased I picked this book to read and not another one. I felt I got my money's worth, and this is a book I can always read over. I recommend this book to everyone, it's a must read.

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Summary: Very interesting
Review: I think that Hiroshima was a very interesting and informative book. I knew aolt about the bombing of Hiroshima, but never as much as described in the book. The book has in deoth information on what happened to people at various differences from the explosion and how everyone struggled through the sickness and lack of doctors. The chapters tell about the initial explosions, fires buildings collapsing and the investigaions of the bomb. Since I really enjoy World War 2 I really like this book and would read it again. If you have a project on the bombing of Hiroshima or or just want to read about it I would reccomend this book.

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Summary: Historical account without unneccessary sensationalism
Review: A racy or suspenseful novel was not the attempt in Hiroshima. The story is a clear and compelling report from the lens of several victims. While the dropping of the A-bombs may or may not have been the most humane decision in a pragmatic sense, the book does not judge, but merely shows the downside to using the utilitarian ethic. Please read this book. I found it an essential step in the shaping of my sense of history.

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Summary: An Interesting Look at a Serious Topic
Review: Hiroshima is a very informitive book about a very serious event, the bombing of Hiroshima, Japan. This informitave book on the lives of six people who survived the bombing dipicts what they were doing right before the bomb went off, how they protected themselves, and how they felt. In the continuation to this book John Hersey writes a fifth chapter as a sort of check up to see what the people in this book have been doing since their last interview. This book not only deserves great reviews it also deserves five stars. If you would like to read an interesting, informative book about the bombing of Hiroshima this is your book.

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Summary: A very informative book
Review: I think that Hiroshima was a very interesting and informative book. I knew alot about the Hiroshima bomb but never as much as described in the book. The book has in depth information on what happened to people at various distances from the explosion, and how everyone struggled through the sicknes and lack of doctors. The chapters tell about the initial explosions, fires, buildings collapsing and the investigations of the bomb. Since I really enjoy World War 2 I realy liked this book and would read it again. If you have to do a project on the Hiroshima bomb or just want to read about it I would reccomend this book.

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Summary: jus-another-book
Review: In my opinion,Hiroshima was not really a good book becoz mainly the setting out of the book was too confusing for the reader.I know the writer trying to create an atmoshpere of what's happening but i find it too difficult to remember what had happen to the last character i've read.Also it was pretty much predictable and i find it hard to understand some of the words the writer use.

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Summary: Hiroshima in Context
Review: Hiroshima was published in 1946 - a year after the bomb was dropped - in New Yorker magazine. Uniquely in its history, the magazine devoted its entire issue to Hersey's 30,000 word essay. Only later was it turned into a book; the final chapter on the subsequent lives of the six subjects wasn't written until 1985.

Hersey set out to put a human face on the consquences of the atomic bomb. All earlier news accounts, articles and stories had been focused on the statistics, the science, and the effort that led to the nuclear weapon. Understood in that context, understanding what Hersey was trying to do and say, the book is even more remarkable.

It is not a novel; a novel is a work of fiction. It is an essay, a work of reportage. This story is true. The book is all the more remarkable because Hersey was born and raised in China, the son of missionaries, and had no reason to be sympathetic to or about the Japanese. A war correspondent for Time, he earned a commendation from the U.S. Army at Guadacanal. He cannot fairly be accused of anything but supreme objectivity. By telling the true stories of six survivors in an absolutely straightforward way, without judging the decision to use the bomb, he put an intensely human face on the consequences.

He was criticized at the time and is criticized today for taking the events that day out of context. The bomb is supposed to have saved a million American casualties (a highly suspect figure today). It was supposed to have shortened the war by a year or more. Those critics are themselves missing the true context. At the time, the historical events leading to Truman's decision were well known (although recast in February 1947 by Stinson). Hersey's goal was to make the story real in a new way. Those facts are well and good, Hersey is saying, but there were bad consequences as well. In the process, he created a remarkable book.

I was glad to see New York University recently named Hersey's Hiroshima as the best single work of reporting in the 20th century. As events unfold in the escalating nuclear arms race on the Indian subcontinent, everyone needs to understand the human consequences of the use of nuclear weapons. By helping keep Hersey's work before us, perhaps we can avoid another Hiroshima or Nagasaki.