02157cam a2200361 i 4500 1232272458 OCoLC 20210707124531.0 210123s2021 nyuaf e b 001 0 eng d 9780316296618 Me eng rda Me 940.54/4973 23 Gladwell, Malcolm, 1963- author. 8440 The Bomber Mafia : a dream, a temptation, and the longest night of the second World War / Malcolm Gladwell. First edition: April 2021. New York : Little Brown and Company, 2021. ©2021. xiv, 240 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm. text txt rdacontent. still image rdacontent. unmediated n rdamedia. volume nc rdacarrier. 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. World War, 1939-1945 Aerial operations, American. 8441 World War, 1939-1945 Japan Aerial operations, American. 8442 Bombing, Aerial Japan History 20th century. 8443 Aeronautics, Military History. 8444 Precision bombing. History. 8445 History. lcgft. 49 ddc BOOK 27700 27700 ddc 0 0 ABELJ ABELJ NF 2021-07-07 27.00 4 1 940.54 CLAD 62963 2021-11-17 2021-11-03 2021-07-07 BOOK