To Hell and Back: The Last Train from Hiroshima - Charles Pellegrino Audiobook
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Asia
Historical
History
Japan
Japanese Literature
Military History
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Science
World War II
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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 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 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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This post has 9 comments with rating of 5/5
July 11th, 2023
Thank you so much
July 11th, 2023
Thank you so much
July 11th, 2023
Is this one of those “You should feel bad about nuking Japan” books? It won’t work. Never felt bad. Never will. The empire of Japan played stupid games, and its citizens got the stupid prizes it very much earned.
July 12th, 2023
Thank you!
July 12th, 2023
Bet they were sorry they started it.
July 13th, 2023
@Faiscar How much?
November 23rd, 2024
Some really stupid comments here. If you can’t feel empathy for that then you are soulless. Also go read about Hirohito and his ruling class, leading some well-manipulated, powerless proletariat.
December 11th, 2024
Nah, straight up. This book is the fucking tits! Practised as we are in its ways, its easy for us to believe that we know what it is to wage war. But this here pale horse is on another level altogether. We aint know squat.
But a question, now if say, the mind is a brains EMF interference pattern. Then it exists beyond the physical boundries of the body. The most probable location for multiple speed of light electromagnetic waves to intersect would be kinda’exactly’ where an aura would if they ‘existed’. Now, HUGE LEAP, am I cray cray here or did the Antwalkers have their auras whited out?
January 28th, 2026
I probably shouldn’t weigh in on this, but one can feel sorry for the people of Japan while realizing that dropping those two bombs was the right thing to do. It saved far more lives than it cost. Yes, the results were horrible… but that was the POINT.
There’s a quite wonderful Japanese movie called The Great War of Archimedes, broadly speaking about the battleship Yamato. How historically accurate it is, I don’t know. I imagine there’s a good deal of fiction woven into the actual events and real people. But -and most definitely spoilers below- there’s a twist at the end of the movie- a most terrible one. The ship’s designer knew all along that Japan was heading for a war it could not possibly win. The Yamato (at least in the movie) wasn’t intended to help win the war. It was INTENDED to be sunk. The designer’s intent was that it was to be a symbol of Japan’s power and when it was inevitably sunk, it would be such a blow to morale that the Japanese people would lose heart and give up, rather than fighting guerilla-style for every mountain, every tree, every street corner. Obviously that isn’t how events turned out in actual history but that was the same reason we dropped those bombs. The Japanese quite probably WOULD have have fought for every square inch of every single island. The way it turned out, we utterly destroyed two cities- but left Japan itself mostly intact and it’s people almost entirely alive. And as a bonus, our own people didn’t have to fight through the ruins of Japan’s cities. We didn’t have to expend the ordinance and resources to reduce them into rubble. We didn’t have to expend the lives, ours or theirs. We didn’t have to…. you get the idea, yes? What happened to those to cities was horrible, yes… but it saved EVERYTHING ELSE. And there’s no reason to be sorry about that, especially now that everything is over and done with the better part of a century.
I ended up here looking for a different book by Charles Pellegrino, Dust. I didn’t find it, but I think this one is worth listening to in it’s place.
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