109 East Palace: Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos

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Author: Jennet Conant
Narrator: Anne Twomey
Genres: History
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
Date: May 2005
Length: 6 hours
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  • Book Rating: 4.5/5
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From the author of the bestselling "Tuxedo Park" comes the story of those thousands who came to a secret desert Shangri La, located 35 miles outside Sante Fe, New Mexico, where the world's leading physicists raced to invent the atomic bomb and bring World War II to an end.

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Good audio book

by Anthony Rosati
  • Book Rating: 3/5

109 East Palace

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  • Book Rating: 4/5

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Good audio book

Written by Anthony Rosati from Nepean, ON on December 28th, 2007

  • Book Rating: 3/5

I liked the story very much however I would have been nice to hear more of the technical details of what went on there. I would recommend it.

109 East Palace

Written by Adam from New York, NY on October 22nd, 2007

  • Book Rating: 4/5

Very informative and an excellent read. Some books about this topic can be very boring--not this one.

Selected Reviews

Good audio book

by Anthony Rosati
  • Book Rating: 3/5

109 East Palace

by Adam
  • Book Rating: 4/5

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