The Last Train from Hiroshima

The train of the title was bound for Nagasaki: 30 survivors of the bombing of Hiroshima fled there, only to run straight into a second catastrophe. Charles Pellegrino's account is full of such terrible ironies, which he describes with a lucid, almost lyrical precision.

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