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Ablaze

The Story of Chernobyl

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By: Piers Paul Read
Narrated by: Miles Meili
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The best-selling author presents a heart-pounding account of the world's greatest nuclear disaster, based on sources not available before the fall of the Soviet Union. Read's enthralling account is filled with acts of courage - and also bumbling confusion, secrecy, lies, and coverups. Read spent many months in Russia interviewing hundreds of survivors and experts.

©1993 Piers Paul Read (P)2019 Audible, Inc. Disaster Relief Social Sciences
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Well-researched Information • Fascinating Accounts • Pleasant Voice • Complete Work • Different Perspectives

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A few new tidbits and overall a decent focus on the people involved.

One note though. If you know certain pronunciations, the one's the narrator gets wrong might just be so annoying as to put you off the entire book. In particular, his pronunciation of "Gorbachev" changes subtly every time he says it and somehow or another he gets it wrong ever time and i think he gets it more wrong as he goes along.

He's got a very pleasant voice and good delivery but it's so very striking when you come across these kind of mangled pronunciations of things that aren't terribly obscure. Kind of ruins the whole I'm listening to an "expert" type thing.

Food for thought.

Decent but that narrator though....

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This book was well researched with a lot of information and well worth the read, some spots drag a bit and it becomes just a bit difficult to follow but it sorts itself out and gets back on track. Not sure but it went from Russian to WWII then back to nuclear facilities then back to how corrupt the Russians are. Look the United States has its problems too, specially with telling the truth and getting information out there to its people. I guess that all this finger pointing is redundant and that yea there was a disaster at this facility and the only thing that caused it was human error. That’s what we wanted to hear was the disaster at this plant not a history lesson or how corrupt government is (all government). The US has had its nuclear problems as well.

Was in Western Europe at that time.

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Excellent book. At times, the reader can be a little monotonous but it's not often. If you want to know about the accident at Chernobyl, this book is great. I've read/listened to over 20 books about Chernobyl and there was info in this book I've never seen anywhere. It goes into great detail without being "preachy." He lets the reader decide for themselves and even gives figures without gloom and doom. Overall, it's an amazing book.

Great Info About Chernobyl

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well written and well read. provides different information and perspectives than some other books on the subject.

Excellent

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This was a very informative book. The writing was very engaging and it explained complex science in a way even I could understand. The only thing that frustrated me was the narration. While the narrattor was good for every other purpose, the Russian names were a distracting miss.

Good listen!

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