Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy by Serhii Plokhy

Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy

Serhii Plokhy

404 pages first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction history informative reflective slow-paced
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WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2018On 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, fir...

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informative 97%
reflective 50%
dark 39%
challenging 33%
sad 32%
tense 28%
emotional 14%
adventurous 2%

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medium 48%
fast 1%

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