Overview
This title in Lucent's World History series tells the story of the Manhattan Project. The book describes how the project came to fruition, the people involved, and the impact the nuclear bomb had on World War II. The book also details the lives of the people who worked on the project along with that of their families and how they had to basically cut all ties to the outside world.
Features & Benefits
- Vivid writing, full-color photographs and extensive use of fully cited primary and secondary source quotations provide a sense of immediacy.
- Sidebars, visual time lines, indexes, and annotated bibliographies, which appear in every volume, offer a wealth of additional information as well as provide launching points for further discussion and study.
