To Hell and Back
β Scribed by Charles Pellegrino
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
- Year
- 2015
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 4 MB
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
Drawing on the voices of atomic bomb survivors and the new science of forensic archaeology, Charles Pellegrino describes the events and the aftermath of two days in August when nuclear devices, detonated over Japan, changed life on Earth forever.
To Hell and Back offers readers 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 firsthandβthe 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 Nagasakiβwhere they arrived just in time to survive the second bomb. One of them, Tsutomu Yamaguchi, is the...
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