Gladwell, Malcolm,  1963- <br/><br/>
The Bomber Mafia :  a dream, a temptation, and the longest night of the second World War / 
Malcolm Gladwell. 
 - First edition: April 2021. 
 - xiv, 240 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :  illustrations ;  21 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-231) and index. 
<br/><br/>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." 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780316296618 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>World War, 1939-1945--Aerial operations, American.<br/>World War, 1939-1945--Aerial operations, American.--Japan<br/>Bombing, Aerial--History--Japan--20th century.<br/>Aeronautics, Military--History.<br/>Precision bombing.--History.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>History.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>940.54/4973