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Anyone doing an anniversary read?

>> No.16068851

>>16068844
The Japs deserved it and I wish we bombed them more. We should just do it again now for creating anime (a veritable act of war considering how much harm it's done to the US).

>> No.16068877
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>>16068851
>The Japs deserved it and I wish we bombed them more. We should just do it again now for creating anime (a veritable act of war considering how much harm it's done to the US).

>> No.16068919

bretty good book vivid and graphic depiction of what was surely a horrible scene any other books like this with real testimony of historical tragedies?

>> No.16068968

>>16068877
Yes, and?

>> No.16069025

>>16068968
What does any of that have to do with the book?

>> No.16069091

>>16069025
I don't know. I've never read it. Just saw "Hiroshima" and got triggered because I hate Asians.

>> No.16069092
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>>16069091
How does it feel to be this stupid and animalistic?

>> No.16069105

>>16069092
Asians are subhuman bugs.

>> No.16069222

>>16068844
I haven't read it. Can you post a synopsis or an exemplary passage?

>> No.16069493

>>16069222
First published in The New Yorker, Hersey's book reports on the events through the recollections of six survivors.

I picked this excerpt at random:
"Dr. Sasaki shouted the name of the chief surgeon and rushed around to the man’s office and found him terribly cut by glass. The hospital was in horrible confusion: heavy partitions and ceilings had fallen on patients, beds had overturned, windows had blown in and cut people, blood was spattered on the walls and floors, instruments were everywhere, many of the patients were running about screaming, many more lay dead. (A colleague working in the laboratory to which Dr. Sasaki had been walking was dead; Dr. Sasaki’s patient, whom he had just left and who a few moments before had been dreadfully afraid of syphilis, was also dead.) Dr. Sasaki found himself the only doctor in the hospital who was unhurt."

The whole thing is available online via The New Yorker, but here's a different link: https://www.eflclub.com/10books/hiroshima.pdf

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Bump

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>>16069105
You really are one of those special kind of retards aren't you?

>> No.16070688

Pretty good prose for a journalist but it's stupid to take this as a book about the morality of anything in ww2 or otherwise. This is about how a small nuclear bomb affects people living in the city targeted and is just kinda anti war in general. It's just Guernica rehashed in literature 10 years later, which is still pretty good.

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I went to the Hiroshima memorial museum once. It was awful.

>> No.16072383

>>16070688
>it's stupid to take this as a book about the morality of anything in ww2 or otherwise
Hersey doesn't editorialize like this in the book.

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I'd recommend pic related. It's very sad and comfy in a resigned way. I'm still not sure what the fish pond represented.

>> No.16072440

>>16068844
The Hiroshima narrative is a tactic to obscure the undiscriminating bombing of Japan. How many died during the air raids? Hundreds of thousands died. Do people remember them? No. The survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki should shut the fuck up once and for all.

>> No.16073526
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16073526

anyone read the poet Tamiki Hara? He survived Hiroshima and then killed himself six years later by lying down on train tracks.

>Glittering fragments
>Ashen embers
>Like a rippling panorama,
>Burning red then dulled.
>Strange rhythm of human corpses.
>All existence, all that could exist
>Laid bare in a flash. The rest of the world
>The swelling of a horse's corpse
>At the side of an upturned train,
>The smell of smouldering electric wires.

>> No.16073557

>>16068919
Voices from Chernobyl
Most of the good stuff from that HBO miniseries was ripped straight from those interviews.

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>>16068851
>The Japs deserved it and I wish we bombed them more. We should just do it again now for creating anime (a veritable act of war considering how much harm it's done to the US).

>> No.16074016

>>16073526
I'll take the recommendation based off the poem (or excerpt) you posted.