{"product_id":"chernobyl-serhii-plokhy-9780141988351","title":"Chernobyl - History of a Tragedy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOn 26 April 1986 at 1.23am a reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Soviet Ukraine exploded. While the authorities scrambled to understand what was occurring, workers, engineers, firefighters and those living in the area were abandoned to their fate. The blast put the world on the brink of nuclear annihilation, contaminating over half of Europe with radioactive fallout.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn Chernobyl, award-winning historian Serhii Plokhy draws on recently opened archives to recreate these events in all their drama. A moment by moment account of the heroes, perpetrators and victims of a tragedy, Chernobyl is the first full account of a gripping, unforgettable Cold War story.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e*********************\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSerhii Plokhy (Author)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSerhii Plokhy is the Mykhailo Hrushevsky Professor of Ukrainian History at Harvard and the director of the university's Ukrainian Research Institute. The author of numerous books, including \"The Last Empire,\" which received the Lionel Gelber Prize for the best book on international relations, and \"Chernobyl,\" which was awarded the Baillie Gifford Prize for non-fiction, Plokhy lives in Burlington, Massachusetts.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin UK","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42487966072989,"sku":"9780141988351","price":59.95,"currency_code":"MYR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0511\/7575\/1837\/files\/Chernobyl_9780141988351_mphbooks.jpg?v=1777257900","url":"https:\/\/mphonline.com\/products\/chernobyl-serhii-plokhy-9780141988351","provider":"MPHOnline.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}