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A must read. Journalism as a form of literature. We are driven within the lives of a number of Japanese people in the afermath of the first devastating atom bomb. We follow the events during the first catastrophic days. Still, there is hope for a few.

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Eccolo

Recensito in Italia il 1 gennaio 2016

Finalmente riesco a leggerlo.... :-) Quello che mi aspettavo. O forse quello che speravo... Contento della lettura e del servizio.

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jp

Recensito in Italia il 23 settembre 2015

Un vero capolavoro. Storie di personaggi veri calati nella fornace di Hiroshima.
E' appena stato celebrato il 70° anniversario della strage di Hiroshima e Nagasaki , per chi non ha mai letto niente è una lettura obbligata.
Non privatevene.

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Gianni Satta

Hiroshima

Recensito in Italia il 31 agosto 2015

Ottimo libro,espreme appieno le sensazioni delle persone dopo lo scoppio della bomba, rende perfettamente visibile nella mente di chi legge i luoghi dove si evolve il racconto.

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Cristina Galli

HIROSHIMA

Recensito in Italia il 4 settembre 2015

SONO SICURA CHE MI SAREBBE PIACIUTO SE AVESSI POTUTO LEGGERLO! PULTROPPO E' IN INGLESE E PER ME POTREBBE ESSERE ARABO. NELLA SCELT ADEL LIBRO NON ERA CHIARO CHE FOSSE IN LINGUA ORIGINALE E NON IN ITALIANO. SU QUESTA POCA CHIAREZZA DOVRESTE PORRE RIMEDIO!

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Una grande opera, ma un'edizione mediocre

Carlo

Recensito in Italia il 7 settembre 2017

Non discuto affatto la qualità letteraria e giornalistica dell'opera, bensì quella editoriale di Penguin, che l'ha pubblicata in uno stravagante "allineamento a sinistra" e non giustificato o a pacchetto

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Dr. John Ryan

What Americans and the people of the world should know

Recensito in Canada il 1 luglio 2021

It is now 75 years since the USA used atomic bombs to destroy the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. These bombs instantly killed about 200,000 people and thousands more died horrible deaths later from the burns and radiation sickness. US leaders did not want the world to know the horrific extent of what they had done. General MacArthur headed the US occupation forces in Japan and would not allow anyone to report what actually happened. However, a year later (1946) John Hersey through the efforts of the fledgling New Yorker magazine managed to get permission for two weeks to view the scene in Hiroshima. In addition to viewing the incredible damage, he did comprehensive interviews with six of the Hiroshima survivors. On his return to the US he wrote an alarming account based on these interviews. His entire story appeared in the New Yorker on August 31, 1946. It was a shock to read--finally the truth came out as to what happened on August 6, 1945. This was reported the world over, and later this story came out as a book, entitled "Hiroshima". What the book does not make clear is that the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was not responsible for ending the war. It was actually the shock of the
Soviet invasion two days later and the total collapse of Japanese forces in Manchuria that caused Japan's surrender on August 15. After all, the US had fire-bombed and destroyed about 100 cities....two more destroyed cities was not overly alarming. What has not been widely reported is that all the major US generals, including Eisenhower and MacArthur, opposed the use of atomic bombs on Japan. It was Truman and his government advisors who decided to use these bombs. And why? It was not to end the Japanese war....Japan had been fully prepared to surrender. The use of these horrific bombs was totally unnecessary and that is what the generals pointed out. The atomic bombs were used on Japan, not to end the war, but for the purpose of showing the Soviet Union that this is what would happen to them if they did not go along with US policies. In fact, the US almost immediately after World War II, started a campaign to build at least 200 atomic bombs for use on the USSR. Official documents are available on this matter, going into full detail...that they would need 6 bombs for Moscow, 6 for Leningrad, etc.
What stopped them from doing this was that the USSR in 1949 developed nuclear weapons of their own. This of course is not revealed in Hersey's book since all he wanted to do was to show what actually happened to Hiroshima that resulted in the death of 140,000 people. As it says in its sub-title, "Everyone able to read should read it." The bombing of Hiroshima was a war crime of the greatest magnitude.

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Shashwat

An Absolute Brilliance

Recensito in India il 28 agosto 2021

It is a wonderfull book describing the horror and terror faced by Hiroshima and the people living in Hiroshima.
It has detailed description of the blast and while reading you will feel that the victims are telling their stories sitting beside you.
A must read book for the people interested in Hiroshima happenings.

gorka zubiaur

Indispensable

Recensito in Spagna il 31 luglio 2021

Libro indispensable para saber que pasó y las consecuencias de la Bomba en Hiroshima

Guenther

Unfassbar!

Recensito in Germania il 2 settembre 2019

Werden wir aus diesem Chaos irgendwann etwas lernen? Nein! Die Produktionen der neuesten Bomben laufen auf Hochtouren! 🙏

Chekov

recomendado

Recensito in Messico il 21 settembre 2017

Es un libro en el que el autor retrata con una hábil escritura los acontecimientos ocurridos (basado en los testimonios de sobrevivientes) en esa etapa temprana en la cual la humanidad no entendía que los avances científicos son para beneficio de la humanidad y no en detrimento de la misma.