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The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
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51/100Critics
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Author:
Malcolm Gladwell
Publisher:
Little, Brown and Company
Date:
April 27, 2021
The author of The Tipping Point returns with 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 the evolution and use of precision bombing in warfare.
What The Reviewers Say
The Bomber Mafia is an innovative audio book with music, sound effects and archival clips as well as a paperback. Gladwell’s easy conversational style works well in both formats, and his admiration for the Bomber Mafia shines through. His portraits of individuals are compelling.
A kind of love song to the United States Air Force, which is surprising, because it is the least romantic of our armed services, with leaders who focus on technology, not tradition.
... there are books whose fusion of factual inaccuracy and moral sophistry is so total that they can only be written by Malcolm Gladwell.
... [an] intriguing but insubstantial little book.
