The Bomber Mafia : a dream, a temptation, and the longest night of the second World War /
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 l...
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New York :
Little, Brown and Company,
[2021]
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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."