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Brief Summary Of The Book 'Unbroken'

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World War 2 Essay

World War 2 was already deadly enough but then America took it to another level with the atomic bomb. In total over 200,000 people lost their lives from the atomic bomb. Instead of America using the atomic bomb there were many other alternatives America could have used. After the atomic bomb hit there was a lot of damage done to Japan that left the country in so much damage and bad levels of radiation. Many people describe the country after the atomic bomb hit saying how everything disappeared and there was nothing left. In the book Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand she writes about a bombardier Louis Zamperini and his experience in the war. Towards the end of Unbroken Louis describes the damage from the bomb. Louis says “ It was all gone like there was nothing there”. The atomic bomb made many people suffer even years after it hit since the damage was so bad. American should have thought about the how the damage of the …show more content…

The bomb immediately killed 80,000 people. In the book Unbroken it states “ A week after Louie left Omori sixteen square miles of the city and ten thousands of souls have been burned by the B-29”. All homes were gone burned to the grown in ashes and this all happened it a few minutes. In a few minutes a whole town could be gone and the reason is because an atomic bomb hit there. In the book Unbroken Louis describes the towns saying “Once grand cities were now black stains”. This is implying how there was nothing left of the towns and how it’s all ash. Many people also describe when the bomb hit and said “It just felt like a wave of heat and then it just turned to ash”. Three days after America dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima America dropped the second one on Nagasaki Killing an estimated of 40,000 people and the same thing happened a whole town was gone and incident lives were

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