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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