Tag: adam higginbotham
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Challenger by Adam Higginbotham
Challenger is essential reading. As much about human tragedy as about institutional hubris and corner-cutting.
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Midnight in Chernobyl by Adam Higginbotham
Detailed, well-researched, gripping and grim as hell. It makes a fantastic companion to the HBO miniseries – in fact many events in this book seem to have been recreated in the series, though no formal attribution was made. It’s a horrible story of institutional failure paid for in human lives. Written like a thriller, it…