Hiroshima

Hiroshima is a true story about the lives of survivors after the dropping of the first atomic bomb in Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945. It was written by John Hersey, who was born in China to missionaries, but spent most of his life in the United States. As a Journalist during World War II, he was assigned to cover China and Japan, when someone asked him write about the effects of the atomic bomb on the people in Japan. It was from that idea that he ended up writing the now famous book, Hiroshima.
Hiroshima discusses the individual lives of six specific survivors of the atomic bomb. It does not go into the exact details or the facts about the bombing, rather it talks more about how lives were change because of the atomic bomb. The book goes in depth into the lives of a regular clerk, a doctor, a widow with children, a missionary priest, a young surgeon and a Methodist pastor.
The author, John Hersey, had a very informative, yet statistical style of writing this b...