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The Bomber Mafia - A Story Set in War (Hardcover)
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The Bomber Mafia - A Story Set in War (Hardcover)
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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER '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?
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