The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II

by Denise Kiernan

Book Overview

The incredible story of the young women of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, who unwittingly played a crucial role in one of the most significant moments in US history. At the height of World War II, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, was home to 75,000 residents, consuming more electricity than New York City. But to most of the world, the town did not exist. Thousands of civilians--many of them young women from small towns across the South--were recruited to this secret...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1451617526
• ISBN13: 9781451617528
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: Atria Books
• Length: 373 Pages
• Weight: 1.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.3" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

I'm sure it's a good book, but it's not captivating.

I'm an avid reader of WWII memoirs and histories, however this book bored me to tears (figuratively speaking). Learning about this history behind "Atomic City" is cool, knowing that women were doing jobs that the public didn't know of until recently is nice, but the book is so drawn out it becomes boring quite early on. There were chapters that just stretched on and on about the backstory of some of the women, which to me was very unnecessary. I'd look ahead at the pages and skip big chunks just to avoid reading about the boring high school lives of girls in the 50's before they began working in Oak Ridge, TN. I did end up giving up on the book about half way through, and it's surprisingly a long book, and just researched all I wanted to know about Oak Ridge.

I so enjoyed this wonderful book. It certainly opened an entirely different view about women who wor

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