Opis: The Bomber Mafia - Malcolm Gladwell

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.

In this tale of innovation and obsession, Gladwell asks: what happens when technology and best intentions collide in the heat of war? And what is the price of progress?

Szczegóły: The Bomber Mafia - Malcolm Gladwell

Tytuł: The Bomber Mafia
Podtytuł: A Tale of Innovation and Obsession
Autor: Malcolm Gladwell
Wydawnictwo: Penguin Books
ISBN: 9780141998404
Języki: angielski
Rok wydania: 2022
Ilość stron: 240
Format: 11.0x18.0cm
Oprawa: Miękka
Waga: 0.165 kg

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