Customer Reviews
Words fail me. - By: B. Harte, 02 Feb 2008 
I'm struggling to find a way to express the importance of this book without trivializing it. I can't.
Instead, I'll plead with you to read this book, (I would seriously doubt that you have come across this by pure chance). It's not an easy read as I think there seems to be a distinct differencein the way this book would have been written had this event, (for want of a better word), happenedin the England/America/The West as apposed to Japan but I also think that this adds to the account, (the almost nonchalant narrative is both worrying & awe inspiring at the same time). Hiroshima by John Hersey is a very important book... more important than this one... But this is very much the view of the people that were there at the time & the events that followed, (even more a literary masterpiece considering that the author, though originally from Hiroshima, was not there at the time), & very much a book that deserves to be read by anyone with even a minor concern for the future of the human species.
Still haunts me - By: J. Cringean, 12 Apr 2006 I read this book many years ago but even now it haunts me. It is extremely moving & I'd thoroughly recommend it.
Heart wrenching, thought provoking, tense drama! - By: workman01@hotmail.com, 01 Dec 2000 Drawn from the diary of a man trappedin the aftermath of the Hiroshima bomb. It is a poignant tale of a man & his struggle to find his familyin the chaos & devastation following the bomb, heart wrenching, graphic, sad, even funny at times & yet the main character displays an almost childlike view of many things, as if untouched by the horrors surrounding him. This should be compulsory reading for all of our children, lest we dare to repeat history's saddest day! It brought tears to my eyes to think that man could do such things to his fellow man.
