World War II At Night

The World War II At Night Group will discuss The Girls of Atomic City by Denise Kiernan (Touchstone, $16.00).  In 1943 the United States government recruited thousands of young women from across the country to work at “Site X,” a city that, as far as the rest of the world knew, didn’t exist. Told only what they were required to know to perform their individual jobs, and working in ignorance of their ultimate purpose, they had a front-row seat to history.  The Girls of Atomic City weaves interviews with the last surviving members of this unique sisterhood into a full portrait of Oak Ridge, Tennessee.  Drawing on a wealth of original research, this extraordinary bestseller recounts the incredible true story about a city not found on any map and the women who lived and worked there in complete secrecy to help create the weapon designed to end World War II.   Kiernan takes readers to an extraordinary community whose mission was world-changing and whose residents, many of them away from home for the first time, struggled to live normal lives in a place that was anything but. 

Event date: 

Thursday, May 21, 2015 - 6:00pm
The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II By Denise Kiernan Cover Image
$18.99
ISBN: 9781451617535
Availability: On our shelves as of last inventory update.
Published: Atria Books - March 11th, 2014

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