{"id":52316,"date":"2025-08-08T07:06:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T07:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/52316\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T07:06:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T07:06:07","slug":"ghosts-of-hiroshima-harrowing-new-excerpt-from-charles-pellegrinos-new-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/52316\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghosts Of Hiroshima: Harrowing New Excerpt From Charles Pellegrino’s New Book"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ghosts of Hiroshima<\/a>, the book behind James Cameron<\/a>‘s upcoming historical drama, is officially out as of August 5 \u2014 and readers can now glimpse an excerpt of the harrowing recollections within its pages. Written by Charles Pellegrino<\/a>, Ghosts of Hiroshima<\/a> explores the aftermath of the U.S. dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.<\/p>\n

The book accomplishes this by compiling archaeological records and the accounts of survivors, looking at the tragedy from the perspective of those residing in the two Japanese cities rather than those creating the weapons of mass destruction. Cameron noted that this will differentiate his movie from Christopher Nolan<\/a>‘s Oppenheimer<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Courtesy of Blackstone Publishing<\/a>, here is a description of Pellegrino<\/a>‘s new book:<\/p>\n

Based on years of forensic archaeology combined with interviews of more than two hundred survivors and their families, Ghosts of Hiroshima<\/a> is a you-are-there account of ordinary human beings thrust into extraordinary events,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ghosts of Hiroshima, the book behind James Cameron‘s upcoming historical drama, is officially out as of August 5…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52317,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[1975,1976,64,63,457,447,1977,134,1972,1973,344,44,1974,434,427],"class_list":{"0":"post-52316","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-actors","9":"tag-actresses","10":"tag-au","11":"tag-australia","12":"tag-books","13":"tag-celebrities","14":"tag-directors","15":"tag-entertainment","16":"tag-films","17":"tag-hollywood","18":"tag-movies","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-stars","21":"tag-television","22":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}