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Surprising enough I've never read anything on Hiroshima even though I love reading about Japan.
This book takes accounts of the people who survived.

Wow. This was intense. A definite “must read”. This should be used in school. #nonfictionnovember22

This classic first appeared in the New Yorker, originally founded as a humor publication aimed at “urban sophisticates.” The entire issue was devoted to Hersey‘s explosive article. The typical New Yorker cover offered readers no warning of what awaited inside.

This is a short book that‘s well worth reading. It focuses on 6 survivors but provides good information and perspective about the scale of the bomb and its impacts both immediately and in the decades after it was dropped.
Would have been better with a few accompanying images and the last chapter felt somewhat unedited (e.g. information repeated in different sections).
But really makes you think about what people have lived through. 7.5/10

I loved this book and I learned so much through reading it. I highly recommend this gem!