Ablaze: The Story of the Heroes and Victims of Chernobyl
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Rated 4 starsfascinating
Fascinating. The human story of what caused Chernobyl and what happened afterward was engrossing, understandable, and frightening. The book was a little hard to follow in places, though, because it bounced around in time.
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Rated 5 starsMust-read for those in Disaster Response and Emergency Planning
If you didn't know it really happened, you would think this was a fictional thriller. Describes how a string of human errors resulted in the largest nuclear catastrophe the world has ever seen. But the strength of the book is when it describes the government's response and how many heroes stepped up to help protect others. It has great lessons for professionals engaged in consequence management and disaster planning. Surprising...
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Rated 4 starsGood Account
This book covers the Chernobyl nuclear reactor melt down that took place back in the early 80's in the USSR. The first third of the book covers what happened to cause the accident - an amazingly small human error for such a major problem. The next third of the book covers the fighting of the fires, evacuation of the town and the closure of that part of the facility. The last third of the book covers the political fallout...
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Rated 4 starsThe perfect read if you enjoy real history and adventure
If you enjoy true documentary type history and politics, well written, and especially if you are one of the thousands who enjoyed this author's "Alive" - about the survivors of an airplane crash - then you will devour "Ablaze". Mind you, among the page-turning excitement there is also a lot of breathtaking incompetence and cover-up. You'll remember: the Chernobyl reactor blew up, the Soviets covered up, Europe was contaminated,...
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Rated 4 starsRead like a novel, but told a sad but true story.
The Devil himself was manifested in the hellish heat and fire of the exposed core of reactor number four at the V.I. Lenin PowerStation in Pripyat, outside of Chernobyl, in the USSR. Soundsgrotesque, but intriguing, right? Piers Paul Read's novel, Ablaze, presents the horror "story of the heroes and victims of [the] Chernobyl [nuclear accident]." in a daunting, yet scientifically credible way. In the introduction of the...
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