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Bomber Mafia : A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War by Malcolm Gladwell (2021, Hardcover)

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Publisher
Little Brown & Company
ISBN-10
0316296619
ISBN-13
9780316296618
eBay Product ID (ePID)
5050078033

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Book Title
Bomber Mafia : a Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Military Science, Military / World War II, Military / Strategy, Military / Aviation, Oceania
Publication Year
2021
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Technology & Engineering, History
Author
Malcolm Gladwell
Format
Hardcover

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1.2 in
Item Weight
13 Oz
Item Length
8.2 in
Item Width
5.7 in

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LCCN
2021-931074
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
"Excellent revisionist history... another Gladwell everything-you-thought-you-knew-was-wrong page-turner."-- Kirkus (starred review), "Gripping... Gladwell is a wonderful storyteller... in [his] deft hands, the Air Force generals of World War II come back to life... I enjoyed this short book thoroughly, and would have been happy if it had been twice as long."-- Thomas E. Ricks, New York Times Book Review
Dewey Decimal
940.54/4973
Synopsis
Dive into this "truly compelling" ( Good Morning America ) New York Times bestseller that explores how technology and best intentions collide in the heat of war--from the creator and host of the podcast Revisionist History. In The Bomber Mafia , Malcolm Gladwell weaves together the stories of a Dutch genius and his homemade computer, a band of brothers in central Alabama, a British psychopath, and pyromaniacal chemists at Harvard to examine one of the greatest moral challenges in modern American history. Most military thinkers in the years leading up to World War II saw the airplane as an afterthought. But a small band of idealistic strategists, the "Bomber Mafia," asked: What if precision bombing could cripple the enemy and make war far less lethal? In contrast, the bombing of Tokyo on the deadliest night of the war was the brainchild of General Curtis LeMay, whose brutal pragmatism and scorched-earth tactics in Japan cost thousands of civilian lives, but may have spared even more by averting a planned US invasion. In The Bomber Mafia, Gladwell asks, "Was it worth it?" Things might have gone differently had LeMay's predecessor, General Haywood Hansell, remained in charge. Hansell believed in precision bombing, but when he and Curtis LeMay squared off for a leadership handover in the jungles of Guam, LeMay emerged victorious, leading to the darkest night of World War II. The Bomber Mafia is a riveting tale of persistence, innovation, and the incalculable wages of war.
LC Classification Number
D790.G535 2021

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