Girls of Atomic City

I haven't been reading much lately. :(  I  did just finish reading The Girls of Atomic City by Denise Kiernan. This is a book from our team library at work. It is really just a pile of books that people have left behind. Most of the other books in the pile are books from the middle of a series and I do hate jumping in the middle of a series. Oh well, I suppose I will just have to find my books else where.

But I do want to talk more about this book. It is a history of the women who worked in the facility where the atomic bombs were researched and built. What makes it really fascinating to me, is the fact that none of them knew what they were working on until after the bombs were dropped on Japan. People were only given the minimum information needed to do their jobs and no more, so almost everyone was unaware of what exactly they were working on. They knew it was for the war effort, but that was about it. Anyway, it is a great book, and it follows several women as they worked in the facility though the end of WWII. There are interviews with these women today, which is lovely. They provide an interesting and not often heard viewpoint, in a time period that is often discussed. If you like WWII history on the home front, I would definitely recommend this book. 4/5.