The stories of the engineers, scientists, emergency workers and ordinary people who found themselves embroiled in the nuclear mayhem of the Chernobyl disaster in 1986, from }The Last Empire{ author Plokhy. *Also appeared in March Buyer's Notes Serhii Plokhy is Professor of History at Harvard University and a leading authority on Eastern Europe whose previous books include Lost Kingdom, The Gates of Europe and The Last Empire. At the time of the Chernobyl explosion he lived behind the Iron Curtain less than 500 kilometres downstream of the damaged reactor.
