
To Hell and Back
The Last Train from Hiroshima
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David Colacci
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To Hell and Back offers listeners a stunning "you are there" time capsule, wrapped in elegant prose. Charles Pellegrino's scientific authority and close relationship with the A-bomb survivors make his account the most gripping and authoritative ever written.
At the narrative's core are eyewitness accounts of those who experienced the atomic explosions firsthand - the Japanese civilians on the ground. As the first city targeted, Hiroshima is the focus of most histories. Pellegrino gives equal weight to the bombing of Nagasaki, symbolized by the 30 people who are known to have fled Hiroshima for Nagasaki - where 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 both cataclysms within Ground Zero. The second time, the blast effects were diverted around the stairwell behind which Yamaguchi's office conference was convened - placing him and few others in a shock cocoon that offered protection while the entire building disappeared around them.
Pellegrino weaves spellbinding stories together within a narrative that challenges the "official report", showing exactly what happened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki - and why.
©2015 Rowman & Littlefield (P)2020 TantorTold through accounts of survivors who experienced the bombings first hand. The narrative is gripping, and an emotional journey unlike any I have experienced.
The whole story is covered, from those that dropped the bombs to those who witnessed the bombings first hand. The descriptions convey the horrors of atomic weapons in the language of those who suffered the effects.
I cannot recommend this book enough. It is read in a reverent and easy to listen to manor. The juxtaposition of the voice and the horrors descried are rightly unsettling. These are stories that need to be told. A warning from history that we all need to hear.
Easily the book I would recommend as a must read.
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This and the previous edition are my favourite books I have ever come across. The people involved had to live through an unreality that is impossible to grasp. Then the survivors / victims where treated like diseased untouchables. Thank you Charles Pellegrino for this.
Brilliant and harrowing
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Highly informative
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Deeply troubling and thought provoking
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True 5 stars
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Heartbreaking
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Terrible story that had to be told.
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One of humanities biggest shames
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What should never have happened
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