The bomber mafia : a story set in war
Gladwell, Malcolm, 1963-2021
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In the years before the Second World War, in a sleepy air force base in central Alabama, a small group of renegade pilots put forth a radical idea. What if we made bombing so accurate that wars could be fought entirely from the air? What if we could make the brutal clashes between armies on the ground a thing of the past? This book tells the story of what happened when that dream was put to the test. The Bomber Mafia follows the stories of a reclusive Dutch genius and his homemade computer, Winston Churchill's forbidding best friend, a team of pyromaniacal chemists at Harvard, a brilliant pilot who sang vaudeville tunes to his crew, and the bomber commander, Curtis Emerson LeMay, who would order the bloodiest attack of the Second World War.
Main title:
The bomber mafia : a story set in war / Malcolm Gladwell.
Author:
Gladwell, Malcolm, 1963-, author
Imprint:
London : Allen Lane, 2021.
Collation:
xiv, 240 pages, [8] pages of black & white plates ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:
9780241535004 (hbk)024153500X (hbk)
Dewey class:
358.414
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
647344