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Hiroshim Dr. Sasaki And Mrs. Tanimoto's Mistake

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Hiroshima was about the dropping of the atomic bomb on the Japanese city. The book told the stories about six different characters, two being doctors, two more being females, and the last two being religious men. The nonfiction novel tells about the horror and the disaster that came with this event, and also describes how the six handled it their way. The author also takes it forty years ahead to show the lives of the six after the dropping of the bombs. For example, two characters such as Dr. Sasaki and Mr. Tanimoto became devoted to help people in every shape and form, two more being Miss Sasaki and Mrs. Nakamura rebuilt, and lived a normal life. The other two, Dr. Fujii and Father Kleinsorge ended up dying only a few years after the dropping
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