George Fowles's Reviews > Hiroshima Nagasaki

(3.5 to 4⭐). In one way the title of this book is misleading as it's more like a deep dive into the end of the war in the Pacific than a deep dive into Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The first half I, up to after the Potsdam Conference, I would rate 3⭐ because the tediousness of inner politics are not my interest in this and because such sections read more like a text book with sentences that go on a tangent. However the second half of the book, the point of Hiroshima onwards (355 pages in) I would rate 4⭐ with specifically chapter 23 'Why' as 5⭐. If you have any interest at all in the use of the atomic bombs please read that chapter because it explains in depth why they had such a minimal affect in ending the war. Hence why there is so much build up in this book because the end of the war is way more complicated than can be explained in a classroom history lesson and that chapter does that well. Can't fault how comprehensive this is, even if I wanted it to be more focused on the point of Hiroshima and onwards, rather than the politics before. I've had to come up with a comprised rating because I feel like I'd rate the two halves differently in terms of my own interests. Imma just gonna have a sob because this book has taught me of the complete lack of humanity on ALL sides.