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
very ill from radiation poisoning. He helped many people during the days after the bombing. Dr. Turufumi Sasaki was a young surgeon at the Red Cross Hospital and was the only doctor in the hospital who was not hurt. He spent 18 hours straight after the bombing helping the thousands of victims who were coming to the hospital. He continued helping all the sick for the next several weeks after the bombing. Reverend Mr. Kiyoshi Tanimoto was a pastor at a Hiroshima Methodist Church. He was not at all hurt by the bombing and felt that it was unfair he was not hurt and thousands of others were. He went through the streets and tried to help as many people as he could. l." This statement could show that the doctor might have had a fuller sense of the effects of the bomb because he treated thousands of the victims at the Red Cross Hospital. Father Kleinsorge and other German priests that were there for the bombing believed that the bombing was an effective force trying to end bloodshed by warning the Japanese to surrender. They were however unsure to whether the evil consequences that came about might have far exceeded the good results. It is clear that everyone was affected by the bombing, but different people see it in different ways and the bomb had different emotional effects for everyone. I think that the author does not have much of a bias in retelling the story. For the most part he just gives the story as it was told to him in the interviews with the survivors. 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. I think that the book is a good read. This is because it is interesting to see how some people dealt with the problems they faced after the bombing. I also found it interesting how some people were severely injured and burned from the bomb and others were completely unaffected. The reaction of the Japanese and their ideas of what had happened were also interesting. They had many different theories of what happened, such as magnesium powder was sprayed all over the city, which exploded when it came in contact with the city power lines. d started. Of those 245,000, well over 100,000 die
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Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)
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