The Bomber Mafia
A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
by Malcolm Gladwell
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in History and Nonfiction.
An exploration of how Technology, and best intentions collide in the heat of warIn 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 Amer...
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in History and Nonfiction.
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Adam Grant
Organizational psychologist; Wharton professor
“On Revisionist History last season, he turned much of what I thought I knew about the end of World War II upsidedown. In his first history book, he goes deep into one of the most riveting stories he’d ever told and challenges to reconsider some of our deepest convictions about Technology,, innovation, and the morality of making sacrifices for the greater good.”
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