Arriving on the 80th anniversary of America dropping atomic bombs on Japan, Ghosts of Hiroshima by author Charles Pellegrino is a stunning work of history. The book takes a deeply reported, humanistic, even archaeological approach to one of the most devastating and horrific military actions ever taken. Aug. 6, 1945, was humanity’s Rubicon. Everything changed in the aftermath. Pellegrino does not avoid the monumental nature of the events, but he focuses on the everyday people at the epicenter. Those souls who, through miracles, unlikely coincidences, or pure dumb luck somehow survived the nuclear holocaust and lived to tell their tales....