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| Original Title: | The Last Train from Hiroshima: The Survivors Look Back |
| ISBN: | 0805087966 (ISBN13: 9780805087963) |
| Edition Language: | English |
Charles Pellegrino
Hardcover | Pages: 367 pages Rating: 4.12 | 1392 Users | 302 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Last Train from Hiroshima: The Survivors Look Back |
| Author | : | Charles Pellegrino |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 367 pages |
| Published | : | January 19th 2010 by Henry Holt & Company (first published 2010) |
| Categories | : | History. Nonfiction. Cultural. Japan. War. World War II. Historical. Asia |
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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 Pellegrino’s scientific authority and close relationship with the A-bomb’s 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 and the American flyers in the air. Thirty people 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 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 Nagasaki—and why.
**As of Mar 2010, the publisher is discontinuing publication of the book due to issues with its veracity. "Publisher Henry Holt and Company, said that author Charles Pellegrino "was not able to answer" concerns about "The Last Train from Hiroshima," including whether two men mentioned in the book actually existed...Doubts were first raised about the book a week ago after Pellegrino acknowledged that one of his interview subjects had falsely claimed to be on one of the planes accompanying the Enola Gay, from which an atom bomb was dropped by the United States on Hiroshima in 1945. Holt had initially promised to send a corrected edition. But further doubts about the book emerged. The publisher was unable to determine the existence of a Father Mattias (the first name is not given) who supposedly lived in Hiroshima at the time of the bombing, and John MacQuitty, identified as a Jesuit scholar presiding over Mattias' funeral. Pellegrino's own background was also questioned. He sometimes refers to himself as Dr. Pellegrino, and his Web site lists him as receiving a Ph.D. in 1982 from Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. But in response to a query from the AP, the school said it had no proof that Pellegrino had such a degree."Rating Containing Books The Last Train from Hiroshima: The Survivors Look Back
Ratings: 4.12 From 1392 Users | 302 ReviewsCriticism Containing Books The Last Train from Hiroshima: The Survivors Look Back
I found this book so impactful that I needed to re-listen to the audio book with my wife who is from Japan. I got much more detail out of it the second time and we both agreed this is one of the best books about the atomic bombings, the impact for people on the ground, the aircrews, the aftermath in Japan and around the world. I am now searching for another book mentioned in this one written by Takashi Nagai, a doctor of radiology who was on the ground during the bombing called The Bells ofThis book is both horrifying and fascinating in equal measures. I only became aware of the controversy surrounding this book after reading it, and it doesn't change my opinion of the book at all. (The publishers withdrew the book earlier in the year because one of the two dozen or so atom bomb survivors that he mentions very briefly in a paragraph or two apparently could not be verified and the author is referred to as "Dr. Pellegrino" and apparently no PhD. rewarded. Well, I don't
Bury them and Keep Quiet, Francisco GoyaThe etching bearing this title is part of a series, Disasters of War. Yet, not even Goya could have anticipated the devastation and random horrors of the atomic bomb. For most of the dead there would be no burial. They were vaporized. They were disintegrating statues of compressed ash. Fragments of them were entombed in fossilized rubble. They were embedded in the mud of choked waterways. They were devoured by radiation poisoning. Even while alive they
A terrifying, macabre, heartbreaking book which should be essential reading for every head of state, military leader, peace activist and physicist and medical worker.. It places you on the ground in areas where the atomic bombs hit in both Hiroshima and Nagasaki , into horrific, gruesome scenes which are surreal and beyond our imagination. Imagine standing in a building which collapses all around you, and you have no visible injury but people near you either are instantly vaporized and vanish
*I requested this book from the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.Today marks the type of anniversary some will celebrate and others will denigrate. Exactly 70 years ago today, the United States, in what some say was an effort to end the war and others claim was a way to justify the expense of scientific research, dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima in Japan.My Pacific War reading inevitably led me here, but I knew I should not read anything regarding the bombings of
Absolutely haunting. I'm not sure that I can adequately describe my feelings after reading it yet. This should be required reading for any and all politicians that reach power at a national level. Anyone with the power to cast a vote for arms control, anyone in a position to cast a vote for war. This covers the aspects of the bombings we don't talk about in our history classes, and the stories that have since become statistics in our debates. It's easy to forget the abject suffering of those
The worst way is to call ourselves victims. To say victimrequires a victimizer, and the victimizer is led to blame; and that starts the cycle of blame. For example, if we say victim of Hiroshima, the next sentence that comes up will involve Pearl Harbor and the blaming chain gets stuck all the way in the past. Then we are completely derailed from the lesson that war itself is humanitys Pandora, and that nuclear weapons are something that came out of Pandoras Box. - Masahiro Sasaki quoted in To
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