In a city of two hundred and forty-five thousand, nearly a hundred thousand people had been killed or doomed at one blow.
John Hersey – Hiroshima
Massive Casualties
M
In a city of two hundred and forty-five thousand, nearly a hundred thousand people had been killed or doomed at one blow.
John Hersey – Hiroshima
The morning was still; the place was cool and pleasant.
John Hersey – Hiroshima
Hiroshima had disappeared under a thick, churning foam of flames and smoke.
John Hersey – Hiroshima
He barely had time to think before the panorama of the city became a panorama of fire.
John Hersey – Hiroshima
People who had been only slightly injured then began to feel quite sick.
John Hersey – Hiroshima
She heard a child cry, ‘Mother!’, but saw no one.
John Hersey – Hiroshima
The river was full of the dead and dying.
John Hersey – Hiroshima
Everywhere she looked, she saw a landscape of ruin.
John Hersey – Hiroshima
Their faces were wholly burned, their eye sockets were hollow, the fluid from their melted eyes had run down their cheeks.
John Hersey – Hiroshima
The explosion had left them without means to make a living.
John Hersey – Hiroshima