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A review by anhedonia_n_anomie
To Hell and Back: The Last Train from Hiroshima by Charles Pellegrino
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
5.0
An incredible, unflinching, emotional look at the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki; a grueling timeline of the events in both cities in the seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months afterwards. There's a focus on the brutal, and often horrifyingly otherworldly, effects of the bombs—utilizing many, many hellish survivor stories—as well as exploring the ethics and justifications of the decision to use them.
Very well-written, thorough, and engrossing, and it's about an important subject very few people have written in any depth about.
Very well-written, thorough, and engrossing, and it's about an important subject very few people have written in any depth about.
Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Violence, Medical content, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, War, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Animal death, Grief, Medical trauma, and Abandonment