Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster (2019) by
Adam Higginbotham is a history of the
Chernobyl nuclear disaster that occurred in
Soviet Ukraine in 1986. It won the
Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction in 2020. Higginbotham spent more than a decade interviewing eyewitnesses and reviewing documents from the disaster, including some that were recently declassified.[1] Higginbotham considers it the first English-language account that is close to the truth.[1]