The purpose of this mysterious government project was kept a secret from the outside world and from the majority of the residents themselves. What were they actually doing there? Very few knew. Thousands of civilians, many of them young women from small towns across the U.S., were recruited to this secret city, enticed by the promise of solid wages and war-ending work. “The best kind of nonfiction: marvelously reported, fluidly written, and a remarkable story.As meticulous and brilliant as it is compulsively readable.” -Karen Abbott, author of Sin in the Second CityĪt the height of World War II, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, was home to 75,000 residents, and consumed more electricity than New York City, yet it was shrouded in such secrecy that it did not appear on any map. The New York Times bestseller, now available in paperback-an incredible true story of the top-secret World War II town of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and the young women brought there unknowingly to help build the atomic bomb.
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