Chernobyl - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Chernobyl write by Serhii Plokhy. This book was released on 2018-05-15. Chernobyl available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A Chernobyl survivor and the New York Times bestselling author of The Gates of Europe "mercilessly chronicles the absurdities of the Soviet system" in this "vividly empathetic" account of the worst nuclear accident in history (Wall Street Journal). On the morning of April 26, 1986, Europe witnessed the worst nuclear disaster in history: the explosion of a reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Soviet Ukraine. Dozens died of radiation poisoning, fallout contaminated half the continent, and thousands fell ill. In Chernobyl, Serhii Plokhy draws on new sources to tell the dramatic stories of the firefighters, scientists, and soldiers who heroically extinguished the nuclear inferno. He lays bare the flaws of the Soviet nuclear industry, tracing the disaster to the authoritarian character of the Communist party rule, the regime's control over scientific information, and its emphasis on economic development over all else. Today, the risk of another Chernobyl looms in the mismanagement of nuclear power in the developing world. A moving and definitive account, Chernobyl is also an urgent call to action.
An Ottoman Tragedy
An Ottoman Tragedy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook An Ottoman Tragedy write by Gabriel Piterberg. This book was released on 2003-09-04. An Ottoman Tragedy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Combines a reinterpretation of the history of the Ottoman Empire in the 17th century with an analysis of the ways history is constructed by its participants.
Triumphs and Tragedy
Triumphs and Tragedy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Triumphs and Tragedy write by Ramón Eduardo Ruiz. This book was released on 1992. Triumphs and Tragedy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An epic history of Mexico from its Olmec, Aztec, and Mayan heritage to the present day.
Europe's Tragedy
Europe's Tragedy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Europe's Tragedy write by Peter Hamish Wilson. This book was released on 2009. Europe's Tragedy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The horrific series of conflicts known as the Thirty Years War (1618 - 48) tore the heart out of Europe, killing perhaps a quarter of all Germans and laying waste to whole areas of Central Europe to such a degree that many towns and regions never recovered. All the major European powers apart from England were heavily involved and, while each country started out with rational war aims, the fighting rapidly spiralled out of control, with great battles giving way to marauding bands of starving soldiers spreading plague and murder. The war was both a religious and a political one and it was this tangle of motives that made it impossible to stop. Whether motivated by idealism or cynicism, everyone drawn into the conflict was destroyed by it. At its end a recognizably modern Europe had been created but at a terrible price. Peter Wilson's book is a major work, the first new history of the war in a generation, and a fascinating, brilliantly written attempt to explain a compelling series of events. Wilson's great strength is in allowing the reader to understand the tragedy of mixed motives that allowed rulers to gamble their countries' future with such horrifying results. The principal actors in the drama (Wallenstein, Ferdinand II, Gustavus Adolphus, Richelieu) are all here, but so is the experience of the ordinary soldiers and civilians, desperately trying to stay alive under impossible circumstances. The extraordinary narrative of the war haunted Europe's leaders into the twentieth century (comparisons with 1939 - 45 were entirely appropriate) and modern Europe cannot be understood without reference to this dreadful conflict.
American Tragedy
American Tragedy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook American Tragedy write by David E. Kaiser. This book was released on 2000. American Tragedy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A re-creation of the deliberations, actions, and deceptions that brought two decades of post-World War II confidence to an end, this book offers an insight into the Vietnam War at home and abroad - and into American foreign policy in the 1960s.
