To Hell And Back: The Last Train From Hiroshima
Charles Pellegrino
Jul 2020 · Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by 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 thirty 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 an illustrated narrative that challenges the "official report," showing exactly what happened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki-and why.
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Tom Zwak
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September 11, 2024
A powerful and moving retelling of the suffering caused a low point of humanity. The book sets the record straight of what you think you know about the atomic bombings. Accounts of the otherworldly horrors we inflicted on our fellow man have changed how I think on certain issues and make me want to live a kinder, friendlier life. I highly recommend this book to any who have the maturity to approach it.
About the author
Charles Pellegrino is the author of numerous books, including the New York Times bestseller Her Name, Titanic, and Ghosts of the Titanic. His research includes work in paleobiology, nuclear propulsion systems for space exploration, and forensic archaeology.
David Colacci has been an actor and a director for over thirty years, and has worked as a narrator for over fifteen years. He has won AudioFile Earphones Awards, earned Audie nominations, and been included in Best of the Year lists by such publications as Publishers Weekly, AudioFile magazine, and Library Journal.
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