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Title The girls of Atomic City : the untold story of the women who helped win World War II / Denise Kiernan.
Author Kiernan, Denise, author.
Publisher New York : Touchstone/Simon & Schuster, [2013]
Copyright ©2013
Description xvii, 373 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : map, portraits, facsimiles, photographs. ; 24 cm
Edition First Touchstone hardcover edition.
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 EI-Adult Collection  940.53082 KIE Nearby on shelf  30626002498414 06-12-23  AVAILABLE
BIBLIOGRAPHY Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-347) and index.
Summary Kiernan traces the astonishing story of the unsung World War II workers in Oak Ridge, Tennessee--one of the Manhattan Project's secret cities.
Subject Women employees -- Tennessee -- Oak Ridge -- History -- 20th century.
Uranium enrichment.
Official secrets -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Women.
World War, 1939-1945 -- War work -- United States.
Oak Ridge (Tenn.) -- Biography.
Other title Untold story of the women who helped win World War II
Untold story of the women who helped win World War two.
ISBN 9781451617528
1451617526