The Bomber Mafia : a dream, a temptation, and the longest night of the second World War / Malcolm Gladwell.
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TextPublisher: New York : Little Brown and Company, 2021Copyright date: ©2021Edition: First edition: April 2021Description: xiv, 240 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780316296618Subject(s): World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, American | World War, 1939-1945 -- Japan -- Aerial operations, American | Bombing, Aerial -- Japan -- History -- 20th century | Aeronautics, Military -- History | Precision bombing. -- HistoryGenre/Form: History. DDC classification: 940.54/4973 | Item type | Home library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| Book | A J M Library 868-5076 | 940.54 CLAD (Browse shelf) | Available | 62963 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-231) and index.
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."
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.
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