{"product_id":"chernobyl-01-9780993597534","title":"Chernobyl 01","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt 01:23:40 on April 26th 1986, Alexander Akimov pressed the emergency shutdown button at Chernobyl’s fourth nuclear reactor. It was an act that forced the permanent evacuation of a city, killed thousands and crippled the Soviet Union. The event spawned decades of conflicting, exaggerated and inaccurate stories.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book, the result of five years of research, presents an accessible but comprehensive account of what really happened. From the desperate fight to prevent a burning reactor core from irradiating eastern Europe, to the self-sacrifice of the heroic men who entered fields of radiation so strong that machines wouldn’t work, to the surprising truth about the legendary ‘Chernobyl divers’, all the way through to the USSR’s final show-trial. The historical narrative is interwoven with a story of the author’s own spontaneous journey to Ukraine’s still-abandoned city of Pripyat and the wider Chernobyl Zone.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eComplete with over 45 pages of photographs of modern-day Pripyat and technical diagrams of the power station,\u003cem\u003eChernobyl 01:23:40\u003c\/em\u003e is a fascinating new account of the world’s worst nuclear disaster.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Andrew Leatherbarrow","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52084160758103,"sku":"9780993597534","price":19.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780993597534.jpg?v=1762205322","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/chernobyl-01-9780993597534","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}