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Surviving Hiroshima, a young woman's story, Anthony Drago and Douglas Wellman

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-279)

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Surviving Hiroshima

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Anthony Drago and Douglas Wellman

a young woman's story

"On August 6, 1945, 22-year-old Kaleria Pa[l]chikoff was doing pre-breakfast chores when a blinding flash lit the sky over Hiroshima, Japan. A moment later, everything went black as the house collapsed on her and her family. Their world, and everyone else's, changed as the first atomic bomb was detonated over a city. From Russian nobility, the Palchikoff's barely escaped death at the hands of Bolshevik revolutionaries until her father, a White Russian officer, hijacked a ship to take them to safety in Hiroshima. Safety was short lived. Her father, a talented musician, established a new life for the family, but the outbreak of World War II created a cloud of suspicion that led to his imprisonment and years of deprivation for his family. After the bombing, trapped in the center of previously unimagined devastation, Kaleria summoned her strength to come to the aid of bomb victims, treating the never-before seen effects of radiation. Fluent in English, Kaleria was soon recruited to work with General Douglas MacArthur's occupation forces in a number of secretarial positions until the family found a new life in the United States"--Back cover

It's Hiroshima -- The war before the war -- Escape to the Rising Sun -- Day of infamy -- Oppression -- Fighting back -- Secret mission to Tawi Tawi -- Deadly decision -- A blinding white light -- Unparalleled devastation -- Struggle for survival -- I must do something -- All for one and all for nothing -- A one in a million chance -- Who is that girl? -- Two GIs in a jeep -- In the spotlight -- Return to ground zero -- Closure -- The family