Academy Award winning director James Cameron is adapting Ghosts of Hiroshima by Charles Pellegrino to write and direct as what will likely be his first non-Avatar film in decades. Based on years of forensic archaeology combined with interviews of more than 200 survivors and their families, Ghosts of Hiroshima , published on Aug. 5 — the week of the 80 th anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki . The book is a you-are-there account of ordinary humans who are thrust into extraordinary events, including the men who dropped the two atomic bombs on Japan , and the dozen “double-survivors” who miraculously lived through both.

This excerpt tells the story of a most unusual act of humanity in one of the darkest places on Earth. At Prison Camp 25, just 40 miles north of

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