I have recently read the book Bomb. The storyline directly follows the allied efforts to construct the first atomic bomb. The book is factual and therefore relates directly to WWII and the race to build the bomb. The story follows many different people who were involved in the Manhattan Project, specifically Robert Oppenheimer. It also details the efforts of special forces on the warfront which worked to hinder German progress on their own atomic bomb project. It also details Soviet efforts to steal the information on how to build their own atomic bomb. Each of these events and actions actually happened as they are described in the book for it is non-fiction.
Most of the book takes place in America at Oak Ridge Tennessee during WWII where production of the bomb occurred. As stated in History of the Atomic-The Manhattan Project "A massive enrichment laboratory/plant was constructed at Oak Ridge, Tennessee." The rest of the country was wrapped up in combating the Nazis in Europe and the Japanese in the Pacific. Most of America was entirely unaware that an atomic bomb was even possible, much less that it was being built in their own country. The book connects to the war by giving accounts of special forces that ventured into occupied territory to destroy german progress in building their own bomb. It also details the deep hatred that Robert Oppenheimer felt towards Adolf Hitler and the Nazis as shown in the book with the line "Burning with what he described as 'a continuing, smoldering fury' toward Adolf Hitler." The story written in Bomb is very firmly based in historic events and consists of very detailed accounts of events transpiring in WWII surrounding the atomic bomb.
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