"Journalist Adam Higginbotham's definitive, years-in-the-making account of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster--and a powerful investigation into how propaganda, secrecy, and myth have obscured the true story of one of the twentieth century's greatest disasters. Early in the morning of April 26, 1986, Reactor Number Four of the Chernobyl Atomic Energy Station exploded, triggering history's worst nuclear disaster. In the thirty years since then,...

To help children understand how one person can "write" a wrong and change the course of history, Caulfield (like Solzhenitsyn himself, a longtime resident of Cavendish, Vermont) has penned the first children's biography of Solzhenitsyn, sharing his extraordinary journey.