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Author Pellegrino, Charles R., author.

Title To hell and back : the last train from Hiroshima / Charles Pellegrino.

Publication Info. Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2015]
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b1652935~S1
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 Nichols Adult Nonfiction  940.5425219 PEL    AVAILABLE
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Description xv, 413 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
Note Originally published under title: The last train from Hiroshima. New York : Henry Holt and Co., 2010.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents The killing star -- Gojira's egg -- Setsuko -- And the rest were neutrinos -- The crazy iris -- Kaiten and the faithful elephants -- A vapor in the heavens -- Threads -- Testament -- Legacy.
Summary 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.
Subject Atomic bomb victims -- Japan -- Hiroshima-shi -- Biography.
Atomic bomb -- Social aspects -- Japan -- Hiroshima-shi -- History -- 20th century.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Japan -- Hiroshima-shi.
Forensic archaeology -- Japan -- Hiroshima-shi.
Hiroshima-shi (Japan) -- History -- Bombardment, 1945 -- Personal narratives, Japanese.
Hiroshima-shi (Japan) -- Biography.
Hiroshima-shi (Japan) -- History -- Bombardment, 1945.
Genre Biography.
History.
Personal narratives Japanese.
Added Title Last train from Hiroshima.
ISBN 9781442250581 (hc. : alk. paper)
1442250585 (hc. : alk. paper)
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