TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gladwell,Malcolm
TI  - The Bomber Mafia: a dream, a temptation, and the longest night of the second World War 
SN  - 9780316296618
U1  - 940.54/4973 23
PY  - 2021///
CY  - New York
PB  - Little Brown and Company
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Aerial operations, American
KW  - Japan
KW  - Bombing, Aerial
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Aeronautics, Military
KW  - Precision bombing
KW  - lcgft
N1  - 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."
N2  - 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
ER  -