Serhii Plokhy at the Edinburgh International Book Festival

‘Heartbreaking stories of heroism’ set against a backdrop of
‘political cynicism and scientific ignorance'. That’s how judges
described the winner of 2018's Baillie Gifford Prize for
Non-Fiction – Serhii Plokhy’s Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy.
The Harvard history professor and expert on the 1986 nuclear
disaster presents a specially commissioned paper linking
Chernobyl to the demise of the Soviet Union. Hear him shed light
on the incredible book in a live event at the Edinburgh
International Book Festival 2019 chaired by James Crawford.