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Very Good jacket. Very Good. Used with some reading wear but is still in great reading condition. No markings in text. Dust jacket in Very Good condition.
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As new, as new. 367 pages. Illustrations. Maps. Appendix. Notes. Selected bibliography. Index. First-hand accounts of the atomic bomb explosions in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Several weeks after publication, Henry Holt and Company stopped printing and selling the book because the author relied on a fraudulent source for part of the book. Copies were withdrawn from sale and as a result, copies of this edition in the secondhand market are becoming increasingly scarce. Pellegrino subsequently revised the text to remove some of the disputed content. The book was retitled "To Hell and Back" and released by a different publisher in 2015. From descriptive information in the book: "Last Train from Hiroshima" offers readers a stunning 'you are there' time capsule, gracefully wrapped in elegant prose. Charles Pellegrino's scientific authority and close relationship with the bomb's 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 and the American flyers in the air. Thirty people 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 the cataclysm at ground zero both times. The second time, the blast effects were diverted around the stairwell in which Yamaguchi had been standing, placing him and a 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.
