THE BOMBER MAFIA A DREAM, A TEMPTATION, AND THE LONGEST NIGHT OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR

• Main Author: Gladwell, Malcolm 1963- (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: New York Little Brown and Company 2021
• Edition: Print book : English : First edition
• Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 > Aerial operations > Japan; Bombing, Aerial > 20th century > History > Japan
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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.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: "This isn't working. You're out."
• Part one: The dream. "Mr. Norden was content to pass his time in the shop."
• "We make progress unhindered by custom."
• "He was lacking in the bond of human sympathy."
• "The truest of the true believers."
• "General Hansell was aghast"
• Part two: The temptation. "It would be suicide, boys, suicide."
• "If you, then, will worship me, it will all be yours."
• "It's all ashes--all that and that and that."
• "Improvised destruction."
• Conclusion: "All of a sudden the Air House would be gone. Poof."