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Chernobyl Roulette: A War StoryChernobyl Roulette: A War Story
Chernobyl Roulette: A War Story

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Chernobyl Roulette: A War Story

Chernobyl Roulette: A War Story

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Chernobyl Roulette: A War Story  Chernobyl Roulette: A War Story
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Year of publication: 2024

Number of pages: 240

ISBN: 9780241681251

Publisher: Penguin Random House

Cover: Paperback

Format: 130 x 196 mm

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On 24 February 2022, the first day of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, armoured vehicles approached the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in northern Ukraine. It was the most direct way for them to reach the capital - and an extraordinarily reckless plan after the disaster that had taken place there three decades earlier. Russian occupation of the plant had begun. It would last thirty-five days.

Closely reported and narrated from multiple perspectives, this is the story of the Ukrainians who were held hostage and worked shifts for weeks instead of days to spare the world a new nuclear accident. We meet Valentyn Heiko, the foreman who had also been there for the clean-up of the Chernobyl accident in 1986 and turned sixty during the occupation; plant workers who found a way to celebrate International Women’s Day despite all odds; Russian officers who had no knowledge of nuclear reactors; and four stalkers who were caught in the middle and stood in for the overworked cook.

Gripping and unforgettable, Chernobyl Roulette sounds the alarm about the dangers of nuclear sites in an unprecedented time, when plant workers are left to fight on their own while the world holds its breath. In a book that reads like a thriller, Serhii Plokhy tells a remarkable story about human nature, uncertainty and courage.

Serhii Plokhy

Serhii Plokhy is the author of Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy, which won the Baillie Gifford Prize and the Pushkin House Book Prize, and the New York Times bestseller The Gates of Europe. His many acclaimed books, including The Russo-Ukrainian War, Nuclear Folly and Atoms and Ashes, have been translated into over a dozen languages. He is Professor of History at Harvard University where he also serves as Director of the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute.

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  • The Author Serhii Plokhy
  • Publisher Penguin Random House
  • Language English
  • Number Of Pages 240
  • Format 130 x 195 mm
  • Cover Hardback
  • Year Of Publication 2024
  • Original Language English
  • Direction History

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