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The Bomber Mafia : a Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War by Malcolm Gladwell is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Bomber Mafia : a Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War about?

Dive into this “truly compelling” ( Good Morning America ) New York Times bestseller that explores how technology and best intentions collide in the heat of war—from the creator and host of the podcast Revisionist History. 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 it worth it?” Things might have gone differently had LeMay’s predecessor, General Haywood Hansell, remained in charge.

Who reads The Bomber Mafia : a Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War?

Author

Malcolm Gladwell

Publisher

Little, Brown and Company

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9780316296939

Category

history

Subjects

History, Humanities

Rating

4.5 / 5 (9,710 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14