A review by maxgardner
Hiroshima by John Hersey

challenging dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

4.0

John Hersey is an excellent journalist who takes us into the lives of six people affected by the Hiroshima bombings and explores the aftermath on the city and its people. This is top-notch long-form journalism; Hersey takes his time to develop well-rounded features of each of these people and does not shy away from describing the grisly result of the United States' direct actions against Japan just one year after the attacks occurred. He also does a great job of capturing the nuance in the conversation that followed around nuclear warfare, both within the immediate communities affected by the bombings as well as globally. This is short and a must-read for anyone who enjoys good journalism.