"Hiroshima" by John Hersey

At 8:15 in the morning of August 6, 1945 the atomic bomb named "little boy" was dropped upon the Japanese city of Hiroshima by the Boeing B-29 bomber known as the Enola Gay. This event was a means to quickly end the war without having to initiate a ground invasion of the country, which surely would have cause a greater loss of life. The arguments of whether this act was necessary continue to this day. This one bomb killed nearly 140,000 innocent people. This is the story of six people who survived
The bombing of Hiroshima is one of the most horrible acts of mass homicide ever committed. I have always been curious what this experience was like for the people who actually lived through it. …