About This Book

Serhii Plokhy tells the story of the 1986 explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power station - the night of the accident, the firefighters and engineers who fought it, the evacuation, and the Soviet system whose secrecy and failures made the disaster possible.

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Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction (Winners)
The Baillie Gifford Prize is the UK’s leading award for non-fiction, open to books in current affairs, history, politics, science, sport, travel, biography and the arts. Founded in 1999 as the Samuel Johnson Prize, its winners run from Antony Beevor’s Stalingrad and Kate Summerscale’s The Suspicions of Mr Whicher to Helen Macdonald’s H Is for Hawk and Patrick Radden Keefe’s Empire of Pain. This list collects the winning books by year.

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