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The Bomber Mafia Malcolm Gladwell

The Bomber Mafia By Malcolm Gladwell

The Bomber Mafia by Malcolm Gladwell


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The Bomber Mafia Summary

The Bomber Mafia: A Story Set in War by Malcolm Gladwell

'A parable written for the age of technological disruption . . . brilliantly told' Sunday Times

The international bestselling author returns with an exploration of one of the grandest obsessions of the twentieth century


'The Bomber Mafia is a case study in how dreams go awry. When some shiny new idea drops from the heavens, it does not land softly in our laps. It lands hard, on the ground, and shatters.'


In the years before the Second World War, in a sleepy air force base in central Alabama, a small group of renegade pilots put forth a radical idea. What if we made bombing so accurate that wars could be fought entirely from the air? What if we could make the brutal clashes between armies on the ground a thing of the past?

This book tells the story of what happened when that dream was put to the test. The Bomber Mafia follows the stories of a reclusive Dutch genius and his homemade computer, Winston Churchill's forbidding best friend, a team of pyromaniacal chemists at Harvard, a brilliant pilot who sang vaudeville tunes to his crew, and the bomber commander, Curtis Emerson LeMay, who would order the bloodiest attack of the Second World War.

In this tale of innovation and obsession, Gladwell asks: what happens when technology and best intentions collide in the heat of war? And what is the price of progress?

The Bomber Mafia Reviews

A parable written for the age of technological disruption . . . brilliantly told -- James McConnachie * Sunday Times *
Unexpected empathy . . . fabulistic energy * Esquire *
Lively, engaging . . . a fascinating story is appealingly delivered -- Gerard DeGroot * The Times *

About Malcolm Gladwell

Malcolm Gladwell is the author of six international bestsellers: The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, What the Dog Saw, David and Goliath and most recently, Talking to Strangers. He is the host of the podcast Revisionist History, a staff writer at the New Yorker, and co-founder of the audio company Pushkin Industries. He graduated from the University of Toronto, Trinity College, with a degree in history. Gladwell was born in England and grew up in rural Ontario. He lives in New York.

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GOR011299672
9780241535004
024153500X
The Bomber Mafia: A Story Set in War by Malcolm Gladwell
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Penguin Books Ltd
20210427
256
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