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Ablaze : The Story of the Heroes and Victims of Chernobyl
Ablaze The Story of the Heroes and Victims of Chernobyl
Author: Piers Paul Read
A heart-pounding account of the world's greatest nuclear disaster, based on sources not available before the fall of the Soviet Union. Read's enthralling account is filled with acts of courage- -- and also bumbling confusion, secrecy, lies, and coverups. Read spent many months in Russia interviewing hundreds of survivors and experts. Pho...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780679408192
ISBN-10: 0679408193
Publication Date: 4/19/1993
Pages: 362
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3.5 stars, based on 1 rating
Publisher: Random House
Book Type: Hardcover
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This book took me a while to get through, but I enjoyed the ride. One drawback was the many characters to keep track of, with beautiful but difficult to remember Russian names; the author does inclues a cast of characters at the beginning of the book. At times it dragged, but for the most part it was a good read and I learned a lot. The book encompasses the whole story, not only about the actual Chernobyl disaster, but events leading up to it, and all that went what wrong with the communist system that lead up to the accident at Chernobyl in 1986.


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