Cover of Chernobyl

Chernobyl

History of a Tragedy

by Serhii Plokhy

Publication: First published 2018
ISBNs: 9780241367605, 9780241349038, 9781541617070

Baillie Gifford 2018 · Winner

Sign in to put this book on your shelf.

Prize history

Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction
2018

Winner

Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2018 shortlist

Amateur

Thomas Page McBee
Hello World

Hannah Fry
Imperial Twilight

Stephen R. Platt
She Has Her Mother’s Laugh

Carl Zimmer
The Spy and the Traitor

Ben Macintyre

More by Serhii Plokhy

The Nuclear Age

2025