Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy [Audiobook] download free by Serhii Plokhy
- Listen audiobook: Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy
- Author: Serhii Plokhy
- Release date: 2018/2/24
- Publisher: PENGUIN BOOKS LTD
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Society and Social Sciences
- ISBN: 9780241349021
- Rating: 9.58 of 10
- Votes: 560
- Review by: Julie Mount
- Review rating: 7.37 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/9/4
- Duration: 5H29M29S in 256 kbps (86.4 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-09-09
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: WMA, MPC, MP3, MOD, FLAC, WAV, MPEG4 (compression RAR, TAR.LZO, AZW3, CPIO, TAR, Z, ZIP)
- Total pages original book: 432
- Includes a PDF summary of 43 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 31M22S (8.6 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2018'An insightful and important book, that often reads like a good thriller, and that exposes the danger of mixing powerful technology with irresponsible politics' - Yuval Noah Harari, author of Sapiens'As moving as it is painstakingly researched. . . a cracking read' - Viv Groskop, ObserverThe gripping story of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, from an acclaimed historian and writerOn the morning of 26 April 1986 Europe witnessed the worst nuclear disaster in history: the explosion of a reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Soviet Ukraine. The outburst put the world on the brink of nuclear annihilation. In the end, less than five percent of the reactor's fuel escaped, but that was enough to contaminate over half of Europe with radioactive fallout. In Chernobyl, Serhii Plokhy recreates these events in all of their drama, telling the stories of the firefighters, scientists, engineers, workers, soldiers, and policemen who found themselves caught in a nuclear Armageddon and succeeded in doing the seemingly impossible: extinguishing the nuclear inferno and putting the reactor to sleep. While it is clear that the immediate cause of the accident was a turbine test gone wrong, Plokhy shows how the deeper roots of Chernobyl lay in the nature of the Soviet political system and the flaws of its nuclear industry. A little more than five years later, the Soviet Union would fall apart, destroyed from within by its unsustainable communist ideology and the dysfunctional managerial and economic systems laid bare in the wake of the disaster.A poignant, fast paced account of the drama of heroes, perpetrators, and victims, Chernobyl is the definitive history of the world's worst nuclear disaster.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Nuclear Power & Engineering, European History, Social & Cultural History, 20th Century History: C 1900 To C 2000, Social Impact Of Disasters, Nuclear Issues, Postwar 20th Century History, From C 1945 To C 2000
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- Format: Hardback
- Approximate value: 28.32 USD
- Dimensions: 162x240x38mm
- Weight: 705g
- Printed by: ALLEN LANE
- Published in: London, United Kingdom
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