Our nuclear nightmare continues dallasnews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from dallasnews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Summary Of Hiroshima By John Hersey
Summary Of Hiroshima By John Hersey
134 Words1 Page
The book Hiroshima by John Hersey is a heart-wrenching depiction of the bombings that occurred on August 6, 1945 in Hiroshima, Japan. The United States Army decimated the city of with a bomb of devastating power; from having a population of 250,000, the bomb killed nearly 100,000 people and injured 100,000 more. In the books original edition, Hersey shadowed the lives of six survivors from the moment the bomb dropped until a few months after. There were two doctors, Dr. Terufumi Sasak and Dr. Masakazu Fujii, two women, Toshiko Sasaki and Mrs. Hatsuyo Nakamura, and two religious men Father Wilhelm Kleinsorge and Reverend Mr. Kiyoshi Tanimoto. In 1985, Hersey submitted a postscript that now forms the bookâs fifth chapter. The last chapter