Standing By and Making Do: Women of Wartime Los Alamos

Standing By and Making Do: Women of Wartime Los Alamos by Jane S. Wilson. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780941232081.

Standing By and Making Do features a fascinating and unique look at life in Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project. Featuring nine chapters, each written by a different woman of the project, their stories cover a wide array of experiences during the Project - moving to the Secret City, raising children far from home, developing a unique social life, living with coal-powered stoves and limited grocery options, all while their husbands jobs were shrouded in mystery. A publication unique to the Los Alamos Historical Society, this book will delight World War II enthusists, historians, and those interested in the lesser-known stories of the era.