For those of you who never read Hiroshima (James Hersey, 1946), this sobering and chilling masterpiece should be read along with War Is a Racket (USMC General General Smedley D. Butler, 1935), The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, The Devil's Dictionary (Ambrose Bierce, 1911), The Face of Battle (John Keegan, 1976), The Banality of Evil (Hannah Arendt, 1963), Lost Horizon (James Hilton, 1935) or any of Shakespeare's dramas involving war, brutality, and conquest: Titus Andronicus, Coriolanus, MacBeth, Richard III, Henry IV - Parts I and II, and Julius Caesar, amongst others.

Performed in the key of C Major, like Maestro Franz Schubert's Ninth Symphony ("the Great").