About Adam Higginbotham

Adam Higginbotham is a British writer whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Wired, GQ and Smithsonian. He is the author of MIDNIGHT IN CHERNOBYL. He lives in New York.

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Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster Feb 12, 2019

by Adam Higginbotham

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A New York Times Best Book of the Year
A Time Best Book of the Year
A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year
2020 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence Winner
One of NPR’s Best Books of 2019

Journalist Adam Higginbotham’s definitive, years-in-the-making account of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster—and a powerful investigation into how propaganda, secrecy, and myth have obscured the true story of one of the twentieth century’s greatest disasters.

Early in the morning of April 26, 1986, Reactor Number Four of the Chernobyl Atomic Energy Station exploded, triggering history’s worst nuclear disaster. In the thirty years since then, Chernobyl has become lodged in the collective nightmares of the world: shorthand for the spectral horrors of radiation poisoning, for a dangerous technology slipping its leash, for ecological fragility, and for what can happen when a dishonest and careless state endangers its citizens and the entire world. But the real story of the accident, clouded from the beginning by secrecy, propaganda, and misinformation, has long remained in dispute.

Drawing on hundreds of hours of interviews conducted over the course of more than ten years, as well as letters, unpublished memoirs, and documents from recently-declassified archives, Adam Higginbotham has written a harrowing and compelling narrative which brings the disaster to life through the eyes of the men and women who witnessed it firsthand. The result is a masterful nonfiction thriller, and the definitive account of an event that changed history: a story that is more complex, more human, and more terrifying than the Soviet myth.

Midnight in Chernobyl is an indelible portrait of one of the great disasters of the twentieth century, of human resilience and ingenuity, and the lessons learned when mankind seeks to bend the natural world to his will—lessons which, in the face of climate change and other threats, remain not just vital but necessary.

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Mitternacht in Tschernobyl: Die geheime Geschichte der größten Atomkatastrophe aller Zeiten (German Edition) Nov 27, 2019

by Adam Higginbotham , Irmengard Gabler

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In seinem Tschernobyl-Thriller deckt Adam Higginbotham auf, was wirklich geschah. Mit großer Erzählkunst und basierend auf intensiver Recherche zeichnet er nach, wie am frühen Morgen des 26. April 1986 der Reaktor 4 des Kernkraftwerks in Tschernobyl explodierte und die schlimmste Atomkatastrophe der Geschichte auslöste.
Seither gehört Tschernobyl zu den kollektiven Albträumen der Welt: eine gefährliche Technologie, die aus den Rudern läuft, die ökologische Zerbrechlichkeit und ein ebenso verlogener wie unachtsamer Staat, der nicht nur seine eigenen Bürger, sondern die gesamte Menschheit gefährdet.
Wie und warum es zu der Katastrophe kam, war lange unklar. Adam Higginbotham hat zahllose Interviews mit Augenzeugen geführt, Archive durchforstet, bislang nicht veröffentlichte Briefe und Dokumente gesichtet. So bringt er Licht in die Geschichte, die bislang im Sumpf von Propaganda, Geheimhaltung und Fehlinformationen verborgen lag. Erschütternd, packend: "Wie ein Thriller." Luke Harding

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