ASIN: B007I9AMLS
Publisher: Amazon.com Services LLC
Pages: 256
When Glaswegian man Jim Gillies staged a vigil for the victims of the world's worst nuclear disaster, he had no idea it was the start of a remarkable journey. Now, twenty-five years on from the Chernobyl meltdown of April 26, 1986, the pensioner is a hero and celebrity in a town far from home. Jim's life changed when an anonymous letter arrived at his home from Ukraine, pleading with him to help the young patients of a destitute hospital in Malin, a town within the blast's Exclusion Zone. Despite the strange circumstances, Jim made an exhausting three-day bus journey across Europe and into the unknown, where nothing could prepare him for what he witnessed. Abandoned babies and sick children lay on stained mattresses as wind whistled through the crumbling hospital's broken windows and rats roamed the bare, makeshift kitchen. There were no medicines, food or medical equipment and little ...
