The Bomber Mafia
Malcolm GladwellAn exploration of how technology and best intentions collide in the heat of war
In The Bomber Mafia, 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, the "Bomber Mafia," asked: What if precision bombing could cripple the enemy and make war far less lethal?
In contrast, the bombing of Tokyo on the deadliest night of the war was the brainchild of General Curtis LeMay, whose brutal pragmatism and scorched-earth tactics in Japan cost thousands of civilian lives, but may have spared even more by averting a planned US invasion. In The Bomber Mafia, Gladwell asks, "Was...
الفئات:
عام:
2021
الناشر:
Little, Brown and Company
اللغة:
english
ISBN 10:
0316296937
ISBN 13:
9780316296939
ISBN:
1127C56A-CE79-4C14-9441-6EEC1A0C4851
ملف:
MOBI , 18.60 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2021
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