Voices from Chernobyl : The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster

from Whisper1

This was a difficult read. It is a well written, factual, emotional book of stories of those who suffered greatly by the nuclear explosion caused by reactor #4 in the Chernobyl area of Russia. The foreward notes that this was an error of faculty engineering, and a host of those in charge who were...

from MalfoysPixie

I remember hearing about the Chernobyl disaster in passing for many years. Very little was taught to us about it in school, though I still feel it should have been after reading this book. I do not know how much this will help another reader, but I can only state my thoughts.As I read this book, ...

from EnidaV

Astonishing and alarming things are in this book, eg did you know that many, many highly radioactive things - from fur coats to heavy machinery - were smuggled out of the Chernobyl zone? Then there are appalling accounts of the soldiers sent to clean up the reactor with no real protective gear, k...

from pamelad

Alexievich, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2015, interviewed hundreds of people affected by the Chernobyl explosion. There are the pregnant wives of the firefighters who were sent onto the roof of the reactor and died of radiation poisoning within weeks, or of the soldiers who survived...

from LisaMorr

Wow - first book of the year, and a solid 5-star read. April 26, 1986 was when the world changed, when Chernobyl blew up, the worst civilian nuclear disaster in history. Alexievich chronicles this event through interviews with the people affected, with a preface covering the salient facts about t...