~ Trade Paperback
~ Winner of the Colby Award, and the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Nonfiction - 2020
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
On the morning of April 26, 1986, Reactor Number Four of the Chernobyl Atomic Energy Station exploded, triggering one of the twentieth century’s greatest disasters. Since then, Chernobyl has become lodged in the collective nightmares of the world, but the real story of the accident, clouded from the beginning by secrecy, propaganda, and misinformation, has long remained in dispute . . .
A definitive, and harrowing account of the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant from investigative journalist Adam Higginbotham draws on hundreds of hours of interviews, letters, unpublished memoirs, and documents from declassified archives to present Midnight in Chernobyl, a powerful investigation into how propaganda, secrecy, and myth have obscured the truth behind one of the twentieth century's greatest disasters.
"Higginbotham captures the nerve-racked Soviet atmosphere brilliantly." -- The New York Times Book Review