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The girls of Atomic City, the untold story of the women who helped win World War II, Denise Kiernan

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The girls of Atomic City

Denise Kiernan

the untold story of the women who helped win World War II

During World War II, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, was home to 75,000 residents. To most of the world, the town did not exist. Thousands of civilians—many were young women from small towns across the South—were recruited to this secret city, enticed by solid wages and the promise of war-ending work. Kept in the dark, few would ever guess the true nature of the tasks they performed each day in the hulking factories of the Appalachian Mountains--until the end of the war when Oak Ridge’s fateful secret was revealed. Bestseller. 2013

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