Standing By and Making Do: Women of Wartime Los Alamos
These skillfully edited first-person accounts are vital to understanding the daily life that supported the work of Manhattan Project scientists at los Alamos. More than sixty years after their writting, the authors' unique standpoints provide historical, social, and cultural details of the internal home front at America's top-secret atomic city that otherwise would have been lost. --Mary Palevsky, author ofAtomic Fragments: A Daughter's QuestionsA fascinating account of what it was like to actually exist in a makeshift place without a name. --Wendy Hoffman,Los Alamos MonitorThe essayists are intelligent, witty women whose views are interesting and whose writing is delightful. --Kathleen Manley,New Mexico History Quarterly