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Author Pellegrino, Charles R., author

Title To hell and back : the last train from Hiroshima / Charles Pellegrino
Published Lanham ; Boulder ; New York ; London : Rowman and Littlefield, [2015]

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 413 pages)
Series Asia/Pacific/perspectives
Asia/Pacific/perspectives.
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 Draws on the voices of atomic-bomb survivors and the science of forensic archaeology to describe the events and aftermath of two days in August 1945 when nuclear devices detonated over Japan changed life on Earth forever. --Publisher's description
Notes Originally published under title: The last train from Hiroshima. New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2010
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed
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
Victims.
Archaeology.
Hydrogen bomb.
Nuclear Weapons
Survivors
World War II
Archaeology
archaeology.
HISTORY -- Europe -- Western.
Victims
Archaeology
Atomic bomb -- Social aspects
Atomic bomb victims
Forensic archaeology
Hiroshima-shi (Japan) -- History -- Bombardment, 1945 -- Personal narratives, Japanese
Hiroshima-shi (Japan) -- Biography
Hiroshima-shi (Japan) -- History -- Bombardment, 1945.
Japan
Japan -- Hiroshima-shi
Genre/Form Personal narratives
History
Personal narratives
Biographies
Biographies.
Personal narratives.
Biographies.
Récits personnels.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021693610
ISBN 9781442259836
1442259833
9781442250598
1442250593
Other Titles Last train from Hiroshima