Hiroshima
Hiroshima
by John Hersey
First published 1948 · 120 pages · about 2 hours to read
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About this book
Describes the effect of the bombing of Hiroshima on six survivors of the atomic blast.
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Quotes
“It would be impossible to say what horrors were embedded in the minds of the children who lived through the day of the bombing in Hiroshima. On the surface, their recollections, months after the disaster, were of an exhilarating adventure.”
Chapter 4 “He lived enclosed in the present tense.”
Chapter 5
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