Bomb Book Reviews Samples For Students

Hiroshima. By John Hersey (New York: A.A. Knopf, 1989). 160 pages. Reviewed by Your Name, Date of Review.

John Hersey (1914 – 1993) decided to write a story about the atomic bombing of Japan that would explain the catastrophic consequences to the people on the ground there at the time. Hersey spent weeks in Japan interviewing eyewitnesses to the event and eventually produced a long article entitled “Hiroshima” which appeared in The New Yorker. Two months later Hiroshima was printed as a book. The general story is that of six people who were on the scene when the atomic bomb was dropped ...

It is important to comprehend the reason why Hiroshima was a likely target. According to Hersey (107), “the ruined city had flourished and had been an inviting target mainly because it had been one of the most important military- command and communications centres in Japan, and would have become the Imperial headquarters had the islands been invaded and Tokyo been captured.” In other words, how had the dropping of the bomb changed the lives of the survivors? Was the decision by the United States government to hit Hiroshima with the atomic bomb necessary? Should the Japanese have been forewarned about ...

Many veterans have written war memoirs in recent times in which they narrate their own personal combat adventures in a very straightforward manner. Although many of these soldiers-turned-authors shy away from emphasizing on the mental toll of war, we all know that the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq in the past ten years have taken a tremendous toll on the soldiers and their families. Thus, what sets Brian Castner’s amazing memoir, “The Long Walk: A Story Of War And The Life That Follows,” apart is the fact that he does not flinch when taking a look at postwar life. Brian Castner, ...

Book Review: The Cold War by John Lewis Gaddis

Introduction

The eventual collapse of the agreement between the USSR, Britain and the United States in 1945 after the end of the World War II set the platform for the cold war. An anti-communist policy, commonly called the Truman doctrine, declared in 1947 by President Truman of the USA spoke clearly of the atmosphere that would prevail (Gaddis 30). The resulting tension between the communist and capitalist ideologies is what came to be known as the Cold War. Since it never resulted into armed confrontation or “blistering” conflict it was referred to as the cold war. Therefore the Cold ...

Question 5, chapter 4 conversation

The professor seems to understand what the secret service is all about while Ossipon has been displayed as an agent who is not well informed. Being the inventor of the bombs that are responsible for a number of deaths, he is a scary character. The conversation that he engages in reveals the fact that he cares less about human life, as long as he accomplishes his purpose. He describes an incidence that involved death and is not feeling guilty of how it could have killed one of his associates. Ossipon on the other hand seems not to take any of the ...

The reading, “Three Narrative of Our Humanity,” was informative, but difficult. The so-called, “sanitizing,” of Japanese history to wipe clean any remnants of the country’s part in World War II is both insulting, but understandable, as the reading admits preoccupation with the country’s own suffering is natural . American’s seem preoccupied with wanting an apology from the Japanese. At the very least, the world wants acknowledgement that the Japanese were involved. Perhaps, however, the Japanese are simply attempting to wipe out one of the most gruesome and violent parts of their history, perpetrated on them as a ...

This book is the great work of a renowned scholar throughout the field that deals with weapons of the nuclear origin and also international relations. The book tries to examine the crisis of order emerging due to existence of mass destruction weapons. Therefore the book is majorly skewed towards the issue of nuclear power and if there could be any measures aimed to control the impasse caused by this problem.
The book cites that the key problem regarding the international order originated in the period of nineteenth century, a time when new sciences were coming about, industrialization was also on ...

Hitler’s Table Talk is written in a way to make you feel as if you are having a direct conversation with Hitler over the dining room table. Or maybe it is more like being lectured by him because the talk offered in the book are monologues. The date and time of day is noted as well as who is with him during his talk. His conversations in the book explain the beliefs he holds dear such as the superiority of the Aryan race and who he considers to be a part of that race. He discusses his feelings on breeding pure ...

1. How did the Cold War emerge after W.W.II? How did the U.S.S.R. and the U.S. view actions such as the Berlin Blockade and a policy stance such as the Truman Doctrine differently?
First off, after WW2, the U.S emerged as the sole superpower, mostly because of its nuclear bomb capacity. In addition, the Soviet Union had millions of citizens and was in no position to engage in any new militaristic operations. At that time, the US and the Soviet Union were uneasy allies, because of their mutual fear of the Nazi influence. Their partnership was “born of a ...

Joseph Conrad’s; The Secret Agent:

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Chief Inspector Heat was seen as a kind man, from the Assistant Commissioner’s description. The Chief Inspector was inclined to finding Michaelis as guilty, mainly because he was associated with dangerous men. It is said that some two men were seen last in a railway station and that they came from his village. The Assistant Commissioner, on the other hand, had social ties to Michaelis and therefore, did not want him implicated and later spoke to his superior about wanting to solve the case alone. When the Assistant commissioner and the Chief Inspector go to look ...