Literary Documentation Of The Cold War In John Hersey's Hiroshima

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He describes in gruesome detail some of the horrible images, e.g. "the fluid from their melted eyes had run down their cheeks" (p.51). This graphic style of narrative is used for good reason by Hersey, whose mission was to provide human faces to the atrocity,as he had to work hard replacing the overwhelming anonymity of statistics and numbers that most outside of the target cities had associated with the attack...
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One of the largest obstacles in the way was the wartime propaganda that sought to portray the Japanese as barbaric and somehow less human than Americans or Europeans. That one hundred thousand Japanese died at Hiroshima (many of them women, children and the elderly) did not weigh heavily on the minds of most Americans, and Hersey obviously sought to to provide them (or at least the demographic that fills the readership of the New Yorker) with people that they could possibly relate to...
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