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The Bomber Mafia
Malcolm Gladwell
Apr · Little, Brown and Company · 256 pages
New York Times bestsellerNew York Times reviewedAeronautics, militaryWorld war, 1939-1945, aerial operationsStrategy
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"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. Most military thinkers in the years leading up to World War II saw the airplane as an afterthought. But a small band of idealistic strategists had a different view. This 'Bomber Mafia' asked: What if precision bombing could, just by taking out critical ch…
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