Los Alamos: 1944-1947
- ISBN-10
- 0738529737
- ISBN-13
- 9780738529738
- Series
- Los Alamos
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 128
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2005
- Publisher
- Arcadia Publishing
- Authors
- Toni Michnovicz Gibson, Jon Michnovicz
Description
A comprehensive view of the social and professional world of Los Alamos is the photographic journal of a singular period, as seen through the eyes of one soldier, Pvt. J.J. Michnovicz--first assigned to Los Alamos as a photographer by the military but later working as a civilian--who recorded the everyday spirit of the people and the events that shaped this mountain town into a home. Original.
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