Hiroshima

"ليس هناك طريقة مشرفة للقتل ،ولا طرق لطيفة للتدمير ولا يوجد خير فى الحروب إلا نهايتها... فى الحرب للأسف تصمت القوانين.."

It is not often that I find myself unable to convey the magnitude of importance a book has - but that is exactly where I am at when trying to describe this book. Read it - look at our world - try to get others to read it - hopefully a critical mass of common sense will implode in our collective hear Leggi tutto

Let me start with a preambular warning: do NOT buy the Amazon kindle edition which is missing Chapter 5. This is the eBook edition published by Pickle Partners (ASIN B00QU4BBTY). Chapter 5 is the John Hersey follow up 40 years later telling the story of the main characters after the original magazin Leggi tutto

A haunting record of 6 survivors of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. Written in 1946 a year after the first atomic bomb was dropped. It was originally written for the New Yorker and became the entire edition. This was the first time that the American public came to understand the totality of the hum Leggi tutto

“In a city of two hundred and forty-five thousand, nearly a hundred thousand people had been killed or doomed at one blow; a hundred thousand more were hurt.” “Of a hundred and fifty doctors in the city, sixty-five were already dead and most of the rest were wounded. Of 1,780 nurses, 1,654 were dead Leggi tutto