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. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Medical content, Violence, Body horror, Child death, Death, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Abandonment, Animal death, Grief, and Medical trauma