Reviews tagging 'Violence'

Hiroshima by John Hersey

7 reviews

cecropiansea's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective sad tense

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Fire/Fire injury, Genocide, War, Child death, Death, Violence, Medical content, and Injury/Injury detail

hannah_et1982's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Blood, Child death, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Chronic illness, Gore, Medical content, Murder, Terminal illness, Violence, and War

wadebittleston's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring sad tense fast-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Death, Racism, Violence, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, and Medical content

kwichris's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Genocide, Death, Child death, War, and Violence

Minor: Fire/Fire injury

cynaramaira's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Abandonment, Infertility, Blood, Violence, Child death, Miscarriage, Mental illness, Cancer, Chronic illness, Fire/Fire injury, and Terminal illness

paigesbooks's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

2.5

While groundbreaking at the time, this book nowadays is not one I would recommend to read about Hiroshima. The stories of the 6 survivors are told in a way that was completely insipid, with no emotion attached. Only the first 12-ish hours post-attack were written about, and then suddenly their stories shifted to weeks later, not mentioning the difficulty in the days after of the bombing. I believe there are significantly better stories from survivors that showcase the true horrors and struggles. The book also read as a propaganda piece in order to clear the guilty conscious of Americans. The final chapter mentioned how Japanese people were proud to die for their emperor, and how they were more focused on the honor of the emperor speaking over the radio instead of the bomb that destroyed over 60% of their city.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, War, Fire/Fire injury, Violence, Body horror, Blood, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, and Medical content

Moderate: Grief and Vomit

Minor: Child death, Death of parent, and Chronic illness

jbellomy's review against another edition

dark emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Death, Gore, Medical trauma, Terminal illness, and Violence

Moderate: Child death, Grief, and Infertility