GENRE: Classic Lit; Historical Non-fiction
HONORS: none that I could find
REVIEW: Hiroshima started as a magazine article that was a result of Hersey's investigative reporting. The story highlights six interviews and varying perspectives of the events that happened before, during, and after the attack of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by a detonated atomic bomb. The story is a startling account of the extensive and deep harm that man can induce. No one expected the type of impact and aftermath that came from the use of the nuclear bomb. Hersey reveals the personal accounts of those who lived to experience the tragedy and they are an astonishingly vivid picture of that morning.
OPINION: This book is significant because it was the first time that a country used nuclear technology, and it concluded a significant war in the world's history. The first person narratives that describe the occurrence are the most interesting because even though the reader knows what happened, those involved tell a story without the knowledge of the situation. It is an episode of unfiltered history
IDEAS: Notable book for curriculum on world history and military warfare.
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