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The Last Train from Hiroshima
The Last Train from Hiroshima: The Survivors Look Back | Charles Pellegrino
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Drawing on the voices of atomic-bomb survivors and the new science of forensic archaeology, Charles Pellegrino describes the events and aftermath of two days in August when nuclear devices detonated over Japan changed life on Earth forever Last Train from Hiroshima offers readers a stunning you are there time capsule, gracefully wrapped in elegant prose. Charles Pellegrinos scientific authority and close relationship with the A-bombs survivors make his account the most gripping and authoritative ever written. At the narratives core are eyewitness accounts of those who experienced the atomic explosions firsthandthe Japanese civilians on the ground and the American flyers in the air. Thirty people are known to have fled Hiroshima for Nagasakiwhere they arrived just in time to survive the second bomb. One of them, Tsutomu Yamaguchi, is the only person who experienced the full effects of the cataclysm at ground zero both times. The second time, the blast effects were diverted around the stairwell in which Yamaguchi had been standing, placing him and a few others in a shock coccoon that offered protection, while the entire building disappeared around them. Pellegrino weaves spellbinding stories together within an illustrated narrative that challenges the official report, showing exactly what happened in Hiroshima and Nagasakiand why.
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I thought this book was really well written and flowed really well. The content was hard to digest, though, and may not be for everyone. There are parts that you can't unread. Most of the book is absolutely riveting and the accounts of the horrors of nuclear weapon use need to be heard, especially with the nuclear saber-rattling going on in the world today.

BestDogDad If you read this, go for the current edition titled To Hell and Back. The version I read was pulled by publisher due to a fraudulent source, an American man who claimed to be on the Enola Gay mission but wasn‘t. This really detracted from parts of the book. The author re-wrote parts because of this. (edited) 6y
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This is maybe the saddest book I‘ve ever read. Full of unimaginable horrors and suffering. The people who were instantly vaporized in Hiroshima and Nagasaki were the lucky ones.

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The “ant walkers” were the horribly burnt and disfigured survivors of the Hiroshima blast.

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Power never witnessed before.

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The ones who were vaporized instantly and painlessly were the lucky ones. If you were near enough, the effects of the blast moved faster than your nervous system could register pain.

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The descriptions of the bomb‘s power and destructive effects are almost incomprehensible.

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My next audiobook. Back to reality.