*WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2018* *WINNER
OF THE PUSHKIN HOUSE BOOK PRIZE 2019* 'As moving as it is
painstakingly researched. . . a cracking read' Viv Groskop,
Observer 'A riveting account of human error and state duplicity. .
. rightly being hailed as a classic' Hannah Betts, Daily Telegraph
On 26 April 1986 at 1.23am a reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power
Plant in Soviet Ukraine exploded. While the authorities scrambled
to understand what was occurring, workers, engineers, firefighters
and those living in the area were abandoned to their fate. The
blast put the world on the brink of nuclear annihilation,
contaminating over half of Europe with radioactive fallout. In
Chernobyl, award-winning historian Serhii Plokhy draws on recently
opened archives to recreate these events in all their drama. A
moment by moment account of the heroes, perpetrators and victims of
a tragedy, Chernobyl is the first full account of a gripping,
unforgettable Cold War story. 'A compelling history of the 1986
disaster and its aftermath . . . plunges the reader into the
sweaty, nervous tension of the Chernobyl control room on that
fateful night when human frailty and design flaws combined to such
devastating effect' Daniel Beer, Guardian 'Haunting ...
near-Tolstoyan. His voice is humane and inflected with nostalgia'
Roland Elliott Brown, Spectator 'Extraordinary, vividly written,
powerful storytelling ... the first full-scale history of the
world's worst nuclear disaster, one of the defining moments in the
Cold War, told minute by minute' Victor Sebestyen Sunday Times
'Plays out like a classical tragedy ... fascinating' Julian Evans,
Daily Telegraph 'Here at last is the monumental history the
disaster deserves' Julie McDowall, The Times
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