Reddit reviews Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster

https://www.amazon.com/Midnight-Chernobyl-Greatest-Nuclear-Disaster-ebook/dp/B07GNV7PNH

There's EPUBs floating around of it too. It has footnotes!

I'm reading Midnight in Chernobyl now. Absolutely incredible, the story of that event.

Midnight in Chernobyl

I can't recommend it enough.

I'll add that it's mostly, but not entirely accurate. It's a dramatization, not a documentary. Some of the characters are switched around, some conversations didn't happen, some events that did happen aren't mentioned (the big omissions are the Chernobyl Civil Defense Chief, who had a working high-level dosimeter, who tried to warn the higher ups of the actual radiation readings within an hour of the accident, another is the the firefighters who drained the upper basement of most of the water before the three divers went it (that's why it was only knee deep). Some incidents didn't happen, like the Helicopter crash (which occured later I think) and the helicopters dropping the sand/boron mix via the pulley system didn't happen till the third day. The first day they simply tossed the bags out of the side of the Helicopter by hand.

I'm currently reading Midnight in Chernobyl, which is a pretty good companion piece to the show.

https://www.amazon.com/Midnight-Chernobyl-Greatest-Nuclear-Disaster-ebook/dp/B07GNV7PNH