Midnight in Chernobyl
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| Author | Adam Higginbotham |
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| Publisher | Simon & Schuster |
Publication date | 2019 |
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster (2019) by Adam Higginbotham is a history of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster that occurred in Soviet Ukraine in 1986. It won the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction in 2020. Higginbotham spent more than a decade interviewing eyewitnesses and reviewing documents from the disaster, including some that were recently declassified.[1] Higginbotham considers it the first English-language account that is close to the truth.[1]
Awards and honors
[edit | edit source]- 2019 The New York Times Ten Best Books[2]
- 2020 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction[3][4]
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