Surviving Hiroshima
A Young Woman's Story
by Anthony Drago; Douglas Wellman
BQB Publishing
WriteLife Publishing
Biographies & Memoirs
Pub Date 01 Sep 2020
I am reviewing a copy of Surviving Hiroshima through BQB Publishing and Netgalley:
Twenty two year old Kaleria Palchikoff was doing pre breakfast chores onAugust 6, 1945 when a blinding flash lit the sky over Hiroshima, Japan. Just a moment later everything went dark and the house collapsed around her and her family. Her life and all around them changed drastically in that moment. 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.
Kaleria’s Father, a talented musician was able to create a new life for his family. But after the Second World War broke out a cloud of suspicion fell over the family leading to imprisonment and and years of deprivation for his family.
Kaleria managed to summon enough strength to of bomb victims, treating the never-before seen effects of radiation. Being fluent with English Kaleria was soon recruited to work with Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s occupation forces in a number of secretarial positions until the family found a new life in the United States.
This book is heavily based on quotes from Kaleria's memoirs written immediately after World War II, as well as transcripts of United States Army Air Force interviews with her.
I give Surviving Hiroshima five out of five stars!
Happy Reading!
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