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005			20240204073856.0
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035			_a(OCoLC)on1232272458
037			_bLittle Brown & Co, 53 State st 9th Fl, Boston, MA, USA, 02109, (617)2270730 _nSAN 200-2205
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050		4	_aD790 _b.G534 2021
082	0	4	_a940.54/4973 _223
100	1		_aGladwell, Malcolm, _d1963- _eauthor. _9136797
245	1	4	_aThe Bomber Mafia : _ba dream, a temptation, and the longest night of the second World War /
250			_aFirst edition.
264		1	_aNew York : _bLittle, Brown and Company, _c2021.
300			_axiv, 240 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : _billustrations ; _c21 cm
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 211-231) and index.
505	0		_aIntroduction: "This isn't working. You're out." -- Part one: The dream. "Mr. Norden was content to pass his time in the shop." ; "We make progress unhindered by custom." ; "He was lacking in the bond of human sympathy." ; "The truest of the true believers." ; "General Hansell was aghast" -- Part two: The temptation. "It would be suicide, boys, suicide." ; "If you, then, will worship me, it will all be yours." ; "It's all ashes--all that and that and that." ; "Improvised destruction." -- Conclusion: "All of a sudden the Air House would be gone. Poof."
520			_a"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 had a different view. This 'Bomber Mafia' asked: What if precision bombing could, just by taking out critical choke points -- industrial or transportation hubs -- cripple the enemy and make war far less lethal? In his podcast, Revisionist History, Gladwell re-examines moments from the past and asks whether we got it right the first time. In The Bomber Mafia, he steps back from the bombing of Tokyo, the deadliest night of the war, and asks, "Was it worth it?" The attack 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 more by averting a planned US invasion. Things might have gone differently had LeMay's predecessor, General Haywood Hansell, remained in charge. As a key member of the Bomber Mafia, Haywood's theories of precision bombing had been foiled by bad weather, enemy jet fighters, and human error. 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." --
648		0	_a1900-1999 _9133318
650		0	_aWorld War, 1939-1945 _xAerial operations. _9136798
650		0	_aWorld War, 1939-1945 _zJapan _xAerial operations. _9136799
650		0	_aBombing, Aerial _zJapan _xHistory _y20th century. _9136800
650		0	_aAeronautics, Military _xHistory. _9136801
650		0	_aPrecision bombing _xHistory. _9136802
655		7	_aHistory. _2fast _9136803
655		7	_aHistory. _2lcgft _9136804
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