Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy is an audiobook by Serhii Plokhy, winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize. It tells the gripping story of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, from the explosion of a reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Soviet Ukraine to the heroic efforts of firefighters, scientists, engineers, workers, soldiers and policemen who succeeded in extinguishing the nuclear inferno and putting the reactor to sleep. The book also explores the deeper roots of Chernobyl in the nature of the Soviet political system.