Children of Hiroshima

The book is a collection of people recounting what happened to them in Hiroshima on the day the atomic bomb fell. They were all very young at the time, in elementary school, junior high or high school.

The problem with a book of this nature is that it gets, frankly, boring. Reading a number of memories is no problem, of course, and gives a person a good view of what happened in the city that day. Narrative after narrative, though, tends to get very repetitive and thus boring. It takes some of the power that this book could have on readers away.

This is more a work of research then it is a regular book to read.

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