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The Last Train from Hiroshima: The Survivors Look Back by Charles Pellegrino

The Last Train from Hiroshima: The Survivors Look Back BY Charles Pellegrino. Henry Holt and Co.. Hardcover, 384 pages. $27.
The cover of The Last Train from Hiroshima: The Survivors Look Back

When Tsutomu Yamaguchi died two weeks ago, at 93, he was eulogized as a star-crossed rarity: a man who lived through two atomic blasts, at Hiroshima and then at Nagasaki. He was a man with very good luck, or very bad luck. It’s hard to decide.