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To Hell and Back

The Last Train from Hiroshima

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To Hell and Back

Auteur(s): Charles Pellegrino
Narrateur(s): David Colacci
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To Hell and Back offers listeners a stunning "you are there" time capsule, wrapped in elegant prose. Charles Pellegrino's scientific authority and close relationship with the A-bomb 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. As the first city targeted, Hiroshima is the focus of most histories. Pellegrino gives equal weight to the bombing of Nagasaki, symbolized by the 30 people who 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 both cataclysms within Ground Zero. The second time, the blast effects were diverted around the stairwell behind which Yamaguchi's office conference was convened - placing him and few others in a shock cocoon that offered protection while the entire building disappeared around them.

Pellegrino weaves spellbinding stories together within a narrative that challenges the "official report", showing exactly what happened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki - and why.

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Grasped my attention, made me sympathize with the surviors, a eye opening book! The retelling of the surviors stories that Charles Pellegino masterfully weaved into this book sent chills down my spine. I felt a wide range of emotions, beginning with jaw dropping horror to white hot fury, then finally a heart ache.

A gut turning retelling of accounts

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I wish every leader could be sat down and not allowed to leave until reading this book in its entirety. Whatever you thought you knew about Hiroshima and Nagasaki is most definitely not as horrible as the first hand accounts of survivors

Eye opening piece about the horrors of atomic warfare

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Listening to this book was sort of like driving past a major accident scene. You don’t want to look but you can’t help looking. My only comment is the book’s length. Although I recognize the intent was to provide a detailed record of events, a few sections cover the same territory several times with perhaps a little more detail than necessary.

If you are interested learning more about this part of the war, I suggest checking out “Indianapolis” by Lynn Vincent and Sara Vladic. It covers much of the time leading up to the bombings, including the how the bombs were secretly delivered to Tinian Island.

A sobering and important history.

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