Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster, Hardcover - Svetlana Alexievich

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A Chernobyl survivor and award-winning historian "mercilessly chronicles the absurdities of the Soviet system" in this "vividly empathetic" account...

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Reducere. "Almost 24 hours to the minute since the tsunami hit Fukushima Daiichi, Unit 1 exploded. The building wrenched apart, sending shards of irradiated ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Alexander a. BorovoiForeword by: Gary DunbarThe devastating accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine, then ...

A powerful portrait of the personal consequences of war as seen through the innocent eyes of children, from a Nobel Prize-winning writer. Nobel Pri...

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Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers IncAuthor(s): Melissa MaerzNumber of pages: 464Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 135 x 204 x 33Cover type: Pape...

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Published to commemorate the 20th anniversary of 9/11, the definitive and bestselling first-person account of the day that changed the worldIllustr...

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The book covers the author's time reporting from the former Soviet Union not long after the fall of communism.

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366 quotations - one for every day of the (leap) year - each with a fascinating historical story

Publisher: Elsevier Science Publishing Co IncIllustration(s): Approx. 100 illustrations; Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 394Publication ...