Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Pellegrino, Charles R.

Publication

Lanham, : Rowman & Littlefield, [2015]

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Details

Description

xv, 413 pages : illustrations, map; 24 cm

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.

Uniform Title

Last train from Hiroshima

Alternative Title

Last train from Hiroshima

Subject

• Bombardment of Hiroshima-shi (Japan : 1945)
• World War (1939-1945)
• 1900 - 1999
• Atomic bomb victims > Hiroshima-shi > Biography
• Atomic bomb > History > Hiroshima-shi > 20th century
• World War, 1939-1945 > Hiroshima-shi
• Forensic archaeology > Hiroshima-shi
• Atomic bomb > Social aspects
• Atomic bomb victims
• Forensic archaeology
• Nuclear Weapons
• Survivors
• World War II
• Archaeology
• Hiroshima-shi (Japan) > History > Bombardment, 1945 > Personal narratives, Japanese
• Hiroshima-shi (Japan) > Biography
• Hiroshima-shi (Japan) > History > Bombardment, 1945
• Japan > Hiroshima-shi
• Japan

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• History
• Personal narratives – Japanese
• History.
• Personal narratives – Japanese.

Note

• Originally published under title: The last train from Hiroshima. New York : Henry Holt and Co., 2010.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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: to fold a thousand paper cranes.

ISBN

• 9781442250581
• 1442250585

LCCN

^^2015014341

OCLC

• 900180244
• SCSB-11721500

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library