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

Title The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II
Names Kiernan, Denise.
Book Number DB076895
Narrator Potts, Faith.
Annotation Social history of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, which was secretly created in 1942 as part of the Manhattan Project. Traces the lives of some of the women who were recruited to be among the seventy-five thousand workers who helped develop the atomic bomb. 2013.
Length 14 hours, 43 minutes
Title Status Active
Local Subject US - South Central United States - 976
History - US - HUS
History - US - 20th Century - HUT
World War II (nonfiction) - WNF2
Women's Interest - WOM
Adult Nonfiction - AN
Medium Length Book - MD
War Stories - Nonfiction - WAN
General Nonfiction - GNF
History - HST
History - Military - HIML
Biography - Notable Women - BIW
Greater than 10 hours - GR
Book Club - Kansas Talking Books - BKCB
LC Subject Official secrets - United States - History - 20th century
Uranium enrichment - History - 20th century
Women employees - Tennessee - Oak Ridge - History - 20th century
Women - Tennessee - Oak Ridge - Interviews
World War, 1939-1945 - Women - Tennessee - Oak Ridge
World War, 1939-1945 - Tennessee - Oak Ridge
Oak Ridge (Tenn.) - Biography
Oak Ridge (Tenn.) - History - 20th century
Oak Ridge (Tenn.) - Social life and customs - 20th century
Language English
Medium Digital Book
Released 2013
Publication Info (Potomac Talking Book Services, recording studio) 2013 (Potomac Talking Book Services, recording studio)
Original Publication Recorded from: 1st Touchstone hardcover ed. New York, NY : Simon & Schuster, 2013. 9781451617528
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