The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War - Malcolm Gladwell Audiobook
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An 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 it worth it?”
Things might have gone differently had LeMay’s predecessor, General Haywood Hansell, remained in charge. Hansell believed in precision bombing, but when he and Curtis LeMay squared off for a leadership handover in the jungles of Guam, LeMay emerged victorious, leading to the darkest night of World War II. The Bomber Mafia is a riveting tale of persistence, innovation, and the incalculable wages of war.
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This post has 10 comments with rating of 5/5
May 1st, 2021
Thank you. What a fascinating writer. Here’s a profile on him:
https://archive.is/HGC57
May 2nd, 2021
Thank you
May 2nd, 2021
Thank you for this! I just listened to the author’s interview on a podcast and I am very excited to read this.
May 3rd, 2021
I started listening to this, but stopped. I wish the narrator would just read the book. Instead it’s full of sound effects, bombs dropping, etc. it’s totally distracting. It is too drama; ain’t nobody got time for that!
May 8th, 2021
Thanks!
May 11th, 2021
..sound effects, bombs dropping, you say? Pop the corn, I’m there!
May 13th, 2021
Thanks!
May 16th, 2021
This sounds amazing. And sound effects and dramatic music is exactly what I would have time for! Thank you!
July 1st, 2021
@AndyBook, that’s the point. Malcolm envisioned this this as a audio book from the start.
May 26th, 2023
Just great! What a fantastic book, and the download went great
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