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The Girls of Atomic City The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II Denise Kiernan Cassandra Campbell 9781480597389 Books

This is the story of Oak Ridge TN, the secret city created to birth the Atomic Bomb.
Thousands of young girls came to people the city. The story definitely needs to be
documented, it is history. I wish it had been done with more skill, I found the whole
book disjointed and hard to follow. It was as though Kiernan had too few facts
and she needed to stretch and stretch. The girls followed were interesting,
but impossible to keep straight. I have one regret. Not enough was known in the 40s about the
hazards of their work. Now we realize that the materials were deadly. I would
have liked a health update of the general population. I encourage you to read this
book if you don't know the facts. Although, not great it is good. It starts slowly
but improves as it goes along.

Edited 1 year later

I have just reread this book for a book club. I am so glad I reread it because I think
I figured out why it did not please me . I felt exactly the same after
reading it a second time. The book was filled with facts and data. Too much!
Facts and data do not live and breathe, the reader is left cold,
But the characters did not live either!!!! The people we met were presented to the reader
in a snapshot. We knew them ONLY as residents of the Atomic City. Of course there was
much more to their life story. Their brief stay in Oak Ridge was not the
"rest of the story". I think that is why they were not real-----to me.
I needed more. I wanted more.


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The Girls of Atomic City The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II Denise Kiernan Cassandra Campbell 9781480597389 Books Reviews

Denise Kiernan has succeeded in her new book, "The Girls of Atomic City," to tell the story of Oak Ridge, TN, during the Manhattan Project in a way that is unique and gives insight until now hidden. Writers who have focused on this story before have either featured the technical details or have focused on the overall and truly amazing accomplishment that ended a World War having already killed 54,000,000 people! A great story, however, told.

But, Denise takes a much more intimate and personal approach to telling this amazing story in Oak Ridge (where 60% of the approximately $2 billion "Project" was spent) using the eyes (and memories) of some of the working ladies who actually did the real work of separating uranium (without knowing it), checking the leaks in pipes (not knowing where the pipes went), keeping the statistical data, doing the hard work of a janitor, a chemist (who got closest to the "product") and secretaries who saw documents they could never discuss. This approach results in a more realistic telling of the day to day activities in Oak Ridge and the government sites of X-10, Y-12, K-25 and S-50. The intrigue springs from every page!

The stories of these nine ladies, (Helen, Colleen, Celia, Toni, Jane, Kattie, Virginia, Dot and Rosemary), each unique, yet each holding much in common, is bound together by Denise's wonderfully talented skill as a writer. She paints a composite picture of Oak Ridge and the Manhattan Project that will become a classic in the literature of this extraordinary historical accomplishment that has led to so many technological advances of the Nuclear Age.

This amazing world changing experiment was begun using many women from various backgrounds as workers. The interviews and detailed memories of the lives Denise touched while researching this book have produced more than a mere book, she has created lasting relationships with the last of the living who actually experienced something many cannot imagine. They were personally involved in what has been labeled the most significant military industrial scientific breakthrough in the history of the world.

Remember, these nine represent literally thousands of other women who worked just as diligently, just as courageously, to help win that awful war. Denise captures the grit, the determination and the resultant exuberance when their efforts produced that glorious peace stopping the killing.

Reading "The Girls of Atomic City" is a delightful and spellbinding tale that were it not true would be fiction of the highest order, but it is real...these women lived it. Denise has captured it.

The book is a must read for anyone who studies the Manhattan Project history or especially the history of Oak Ridge, TN, and who wants to share the insights of these women who were there when it happened.
The other reviews on "The Girls of Atomic City" are wonderfully written. I agree with all the positive comments on the book's accurate reflection of the times, and I loved getting to know "the girls". I wanted to write a review because of a family connection! I'm 91 and have always been interested in keeping alive the stories of my relatives. I remember in 1943 my aunt came to tell my mother that she had accepted a very important job in Tennessee, but that she could not talk about it. She would be leaving soon and wanted to say goodbye. My aunt honored the code of silence about her work at Oak Ridge all her life. Long after the war we knew she had something to do with the project to built the atomic bomb, but I had no idea of the challenging reality she faced until reading the book on my . Many puzzle pieces about my aunt have now fallen into place. I am so grateful that the author decided to tell this story of how ordinary women put their country's needs ahead of their own. It is wonderful that their contribution is being recognized.
Love the book. My father was assigned to Oak Ridge in 1943 and my mother joined him in 1944. By the time my sister and I were born, the war was over in Germany and Japan, but Oak Ridge remained on a war footing into the 60's. This captures much of the feeling of the town the red clay covering everything, the Chapel on the Hill shared across all denominations, the pioneer spirit, and the rounds of parties and sometimes college atmosphere that went along with a group of adults - almost all fairly young - who were isolated from their extended families, adopting each other instead. Everybody was from somewhere else, and those who stayed on after the war became the true Oar Ridgers. My parents left in 1960, but returned when they retired in 1987. My father, who had worked in K-25 for 16 years, first with the Army and then with Union Carbide, was ultimately part of the group that helped design and fund the Oak Ridge Peace Bell developed in conjunction with Oak Ridge's sister cities, Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Along with many other Oak Ridgers, my father died as a result of cancers linked to radiation exposure at his job.
This is the story of Oak Ridge TN, the secret city created to birth the Atomic Bomb.
Thousands of young girls came to people the city. The story definitely needs to be
documented, it is history. I wish it had been done with more skill, I found the whole
book disjointed and hard to follow. It was as though Kiernan had too few facts
and she needed to stretch and stretch. The girls followed were interesting,
but impossible to keep straight. I have one regret. Not enough was known in the 40s about the
hazards of their work. Now we realize that the materials were deadly. I would
have liked a health update of the general population. I encourage you to read this
book if you don't know the facts. Although, not great it is good. It starts slowly
but improves as it goes along.

Edited 1 year later

I have just reread this book for a book club. I am so glad I reread it because I think
I figured out why it did not please me . I felt exactly the same after
reading it a second time. The book was filled with facts and data. Too much!
Facts and data do not live and breathe, the reader is left cold,
But the characters did not live either!!!! The people we met were presented to the reader
in a snapshot. We knew them ONLY as residents of the Atomic City. Of course there was
much more to their life story. Their brief stay in Oak Ridge was not the
"rest of the story". I think that is why they were not real-----to me.
I needed more. I wanted more.