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A review by bmwpalmer
The Last Train from Hiroshima: The Survivors Look Back by Charles Pellegrino
4.0
What an interesting book. I never realized I knew so little about what happened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, even though I've visited the former. This book is entirely an amalgamation of eyewitness accounts - there is very little filler narration. I never knew that so many eyewitness accounts even existed.
It was also interesting to learn that the old "hide under your desk in the event of a nuclear bombing" school drill actually has some merit. It really could save you.
However, at times it was a little too touch-feely. I would have liked to see some hard statistics about survival statistics vs. proximity to Ground Zero, and mortality later in life statistics. But who knows, maybe those stats don't really exist. And come to think of it, what was with the pencil drawings instead of photographs??
It was also interesting to learn that the old "hide under your desk in the event of a nuclear bombing" school drill actually has some merit. It really could save you.
However, at times it was a little too touch-feely. I would have liked to see some hard statistics about survival statistics vs. proximity to Ground Zero, and mortality later in life statistics. But who knows, maybe those stats don't really exist. And come to think of it, what was with the pencil drawings instead of photographs??