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• Author: [[John Hersey]]
• Full Title: [[Readwise/Books/Hiroshima]]
• Category: #books
• Summary: After the bombing, survivors struggled with loss and injury while waiting for help that never came. Mr. Tanimoto felt angry and helpless but tried to care for the dying with food. Mrs. Nakamura returned to her ruined home and found her family had all died, leaving her shocked and silent.
• URL: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1946/08/31/hiroshima

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At least ten thousand of the wounded made their way to the best hospital in town, which was altogether unequal to such a trampling, since it had only six hundred beds, and they had all been occupied.