Midnight in Chernobyl by Adam Higginbotham
Midnight in Chernobyl: the Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster By Adam Higginbotham Call Number: TK 1362 .U38 H54 2019 Winner of the American Library Association's 2020 Andrew Carnegie Medal for nonfiction Review from the LA Times Publisher's 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 Drawing on hundreds of hours of interviews conducted over the course of more than ten years, as well as letters, unpublished memoirs, and documents from recently-declassified archives, this book makes for a masterful non-fiction thriller.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 ecologic...