Midnight in Chernobyl
2019 non-fiction book by Adam Higginbotham
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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]
First edition | |
| Author | Adam Higginbotham |
|---|---|
| Genre | History |
| Publisher | Simon & Schuster |
| Publication date | 2019 |
| Media type | Print (hardcover and paperback) |
| Pages | 538 |
| ISBN | 978-1501134616 |
