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100	1		_aGladwell, Malcolm, _d1963- _eauthor. _98440
245	0	4	_aThe Bomber Mafia : _ba dream, a temptation, and the longest night of the second World War / _cMalcolm Gladwell.
250			_aFirst edition: April 2021.
264		1	_aNew York : _bLittle Brown and Company, _c2021.
264		4	_c©2021.
300			_axiv, 240 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : _billustrations ; _c21 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent.
336			_astill image _2rdacontent.
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia.
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 211-231) and index.
505	0		_aIntroduction: "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."
520			_aMalcolm 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.
650		0	_aWorld War, 1939-1945 _xAerial operations, American. _98441
650		0	_aWorld War, 1939-1945 _zJapan _xAerial operations, American. _98442
650		0	_aBombing, Aerial _zJapan _xHistory _y20th century. _98443
650		0	_aAeronautics, Military _xHistory. _98444
650		0	_aPrecision bombing. _xHistory. _98445
655		7	_aHistory. _2lcgft. _949
942			_2ddc _cBOOK
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