Hiroshima by John Hersey

Hiroshima

John Hersey

208 pages first pub 1946 (editions)

nonfiction classics history dark informative sad medium-paced

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Hiroshima is the story of six people—a clerk, a widowed seamstress, a physician, a Methodist minister, a young surgeon, and a German Catholic priest—who lived through the greatest single manmade disaster in history. In vivid and indelible prose, P...

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Moods

informative 78%
sad 74%
dark 62%
emotional 56%
reflective 50%
challenging 39%
tense 21%
inspiring 6%
hopeful 4%
adventurous 1%

Pace

medium 49%
fast 28%
slow 21%

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