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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Bomber Mafia
    sub title: a dream, a temptation, and the longest night of the second World War
  name:
    name part: Gladwell, Malcolm
    name part: 1963-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2021
    copyright date: 2021
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiv, 240 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm.
  abstract: 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. Most military thinkers in the years leading up to World War II saw the airplane as an afterthought. But a small band of idealistic strategists had a different view. This 'Bomber Mafia' asked what if precision bombing could, just by taking out critical choke points, industrial or transportation hubs, cripple the enemy and make war far less lethal? In his podcast, Revisionist History, Gladwell reexamines moments from the past and asks whether we got it right the first time. In The Bomber Mafia, he steps back from the bombing of Tokyo, the deadliest night of the war, and asks "Was it worth it?" The attack was the brainchild of General Curtis LeMay, whose brutal pragmatism and scorched-earth tactics in Japan cost thousands of civilian lives, but may have spared more by averting a planned US invasion. Things might have gone differently had LeMay's predecessor, General Haywood Hansell, remained in charge. As a key member of the Bomber Mafia, Haywood's theories of precision bombing had been foiled by bad weather, enemy jet fighters and human error. When he and Curtis LeMay squared off for a leadership handover in the jungles of Guam, LeMay emerged victorious, leading to the darkest night of World War II. The Bomber Mafia is a riveting tale of persistence, innovation and the incalculable wages of war.
  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."
  note: Malcolm Gladwell.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: a-ja---
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: World War, 1939-1945
    topic: Aerial operations
  subject:
    topic: World War, 1939-1945
    geographic: Japan
    topic: Aerial operations
  subject:
    topic: Bombing, Aerial
    geographic: Japan
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Aeronautics, Military
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Precision bombing
    topic: History
  classification: D790 .G534 2021
  classification: 940.54/4973
  identifier: 9780316296618
  identifier: 0316296619
  identifier: 9780316309851
  identifier: 9780316309301
  identifier: 9780316309738
  identifier: 9780316309608
  identifier: 2021931074
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 210123
    record change date: 20211018101553.0
    record identifier: in00004445000