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Midnight in Chernobyl : The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster

by Adam Higginbotham
Midnight in Chernobyl : The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster - Thryft
Midnight in Chernobyl : The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster - Thryft

Uncovering the untold, terrifying story of Chernobyl.

This book is recommended to anyone interested in learning the true, harrowing account of the Chernobyl disaster. Through first-hand accounts, documents, and interviews, Higginbotham brings to light the complex and devastating aftermath of the world's worst nuclear disaster. The book is a masterful non-fiction thriller that tells the story of ecological fragility, and what can happen when a government compromises the safety of its citizens. A must-read for those interested in human resilience and man's ability to bring about change.

  • Colby Award (2020)
  • Los Angeles Times Book Prize Nominee for Science & Technology (2019)
  • The Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize Nominee for Longlist (2020)
  • Andrew Carnegie Medal for Nonfiction (2020)
  • Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for History & Biography (2019)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

Midnight in Chernobyl : The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster

by Adam Higginbotham
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ISBN: 9780593076835
Authors: Adam Higginbotham
Publisher: Bantam Press
Date of Publication: 2019-02-07
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: Politics, Science, History
Related Topics: History, Politics, World History, Historical
Goodreads rating: 4.37
(rated by 48765 readers)

Description

The story of Chernobyl is more complex, more human, and more terrifying than the Soviet myth. Adam Higginbotham has written a harrowing and compelling narrative which brings the 1986 disaster to life through the eyes of the men and women who witnessed it firsthand. Drawing on hundreds of hours of interviews conducted over the course of more than ten years, as well as letters, unpublished memoirs, and documents from recently-declassified archives, this book makes for a masterful non-fiction thriller.Chernobyl has become lodged in the collective nightmares of the world: shorthand for the spectral horrors of radiation poisoning, for a dangerous technology slipping its leash, for ecological fragility, and for what can happen when a dishonest and careless state endangers not only its own citizens, but all of humanity. It is a story that has long remained in dispute, clouded from the beginning in secrecy, propaganda, and misinformation.Midnight In Chernobyl is an indelible portrait of history's worst nuclear disaster, of human resilience and ingenuity and the lessons learned when mankind seeks to bend the natural world to his will - lessons which, in the face of climate change and other threats - remain not just vital but necessary.Now, Higginbotham brings us closer to the truth behind this colossal tragedy.
 

Uncovering the untold, terrifying story of Chernobyl.

This book is recommended to anyone interested in learning the true, harrowing account of the Chernobyl disaster. Through first-hand accounts, documents, and interviews, Higginbotham brings to light the complex and devastating aftermath of the world's worst nuclear disaster. The book is a masterful non-fiction thriller that tells the story of ecological fragility, and what can happen when a government compromises the safety of its citizens. A must-read for those interested in human resilience and man's ability to bring about change.

  • Colby Award (2020)
  • Los Angeles Times Book Prize Nominee for Science & Technology (2019)
  • The Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize Nominee for Longlist (2020)
  • Andrew Carnegie Medal for Nonfiction (2020)
  • Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for History & Biography (2019)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.