Chernobyl : history of a tragedy
Plokhy, Serhii, 1957-2019
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On the 26th of 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, telling the stories of the scientists, workers, soldiers and policemen who found themselves caught in a nuclear nightmare.
Main title:
Chernobyl : history of a tragedy / Serhii Plokhy.
Author:
Plokhy, Serhii, 1957-, authorPugh, Leighton, narrator
Imprint:
London : Penguin Books, 2019.
Collation:
1 online resource (audio files (810 min.)) : digital, stereo
Notes:
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Performers:
Narrated by Leighton Pugh.
Awards:
The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2018
ISBN:
9780241398241 (audio download)
Dewey class:
363.1799094777
Language:
English
Subject:
Chernobyl Nuclear Accident, Chornobylʹ, Ukraine, 1986Nuclear power plants -- Accidents -- Ukraine -- ChornobylʹNuclear energy -- Political aspectsRadioactive pollution -- Ukraine -- Chornobylʹ RegionAudiobooksIndustryEuropean historyHistorySocial impact of disastersSocial services & welfare, criminologyNuclear issues
BRN:
402090