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The Bomber Mafia
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Author : Malcolm Gladwell
language : en
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Release Date : 2022-06-07
The Bomber Mafia written by Malcolm Gladwell and has been published by Back Bay Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-06-07 with History categories.
An exploration of how technology and best intentions collide in the heat of war A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice 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.
The Bomber Mafia
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Author : Malcolm Gladwell
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2021-04-27
The Bomber Mafia written by Malcolm Gladwell and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-27 with History categories.
A “truly compelling” (Good Morning America) New York Times bestseller that explores how technology and best intentions collide in the heat of war—from the creator and host of the podcast Revisionist History. 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.
The Bomber Mafia
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Author : Malcolm Gladwell
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2021-04-27
The Bomber Mafia written by Malcolm Gladwell and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-27 with Psychology categories.
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'A parable written for the age of technological disruption . . . brilliantly told' Sunday Times The international bestselling author returns with an exploration of one of the grandest obsessions of the twentieth century 'The Bomber Mafia is a case study in how dreams go awry. When some shiny new idea drops from the heavens, it does not land softly in our laps. It lands hard, on the ground, and shatters.' 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?
Bomber Mafia
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Author : Malcolm Gladwell
language : id
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-10-26
Bomber Mafia written by Malcolm Gladwell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-26 with categories.
Dalam Bomber Mafia, Malcolm Gladwell menyatukan kisah-kisah tentang seorang jenius asal Belanda dengan komputer buatannya, sekelompok saudara di Alabama tengah, seorang psikopat Inggris, dan ahli kimia pyromaniacal di Harvard untuk memeriksa salah satu tantangan moral terbesar dalam sejarah Amerika modern. Buku ini berisi eksplorasi bagaimana teknologi dan niat terbaik bertabrakan dalam panasnya perang. Sinopsis Buku Sebagian besar pemikir militer pada tahun-tahun menjelang Perang Dunia II melihat pesawat sebagai renungan. Tetapi sekelompok kecil ahli strategi idealis, "Mafia Pengebom," akan bertanya, “Bagaimana jika pengeboman presisi dapat melumpuhkan musuh dan membuat perang jauh lebih mematikan? Sebaliknya, pengeboman Tokyo pada malam paling mematikan dalam perang adalah gagasan Jenderal Curtis LeMay, yang taktik bumi hangusnya di Jepang berhasil menelan ribuan nyawa warga sipil, tetapi mungkin telah menyelamatkan lebih banyak lagi dengan mencegah invasi AS yang direncanakan. Dalam buku ini, Gladwell bertanya, "Apakah itu sepadan?" Segalanya mungkin akan berbeda jika pendahulu LeMay, Jenderal Haywood Hansell, tetap bertanggung jawab. Hansell percaya pada pengeboman presisi, tetapi ketika dia dan Curtis LeMay bersiap untuk penyerahan kepemimpinan di hutan Guam, LeMay muncul sebagai pemenang, yang mengarah ke malam tergelap Perang Dunia II. Bomber Mafia adalah kisah memukau tentang ketekunan, inovasi, dan upah perang yang tak terhitung.
Birth Of A Legend
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Author : LtCol Leon E. Braxton USAF
language : en
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Release Date : 2012-01-27
Birth Of A Legend written by LtCol Leon E. Braxton USAF and has been published by Trafford Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-27 with Transportation categories.
Competition for Army acquisition funding in the betrween wars depression years was fierce. The opposing camps of Fighter Supremacy versus Strategic Bombing played out at the Air Corps Tactical School (ACTS), at GHQ, before Congress and in the media. Military exercises pitted the Navy and the Air Corps in operations with real cloak and dagger background gambits, each trying to gain the upper hand. When leaders such as Benjamin Foulois, Billy Mitchell, and Frank Andrews eventually were able to foster a bomber competition to replace the Martin B-10, Boeing's four-engined Model 299 was a clear winner; but then it crashed at Dayton, and the Army opted for the Douglas B-18. Somehow, Frank Andrews had enough faith in his convictions and managed to have 13 Y1B-17s produced and sent to the 2nd Bombardment Group at Langley Field, VA. There Robert Olds and his three squadrons enthralled the country with long range goodwill flights, transcontinental speed runs with an obscure 1st Lt Curtis leMay navigating the way, and a thrilling movie "Test Pilot" starring Clark Gable, Myrna Loy, and Spencer Tracy. Fortunately for the trials of WWII, these daring young men of the Army Air Corps put their careers on the line, and made the B-17 one of the iconic weapons of that conflict. This is the untold story of the aircraft development and the men who made it happen.
Birth Of A Legend
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Author : Capt Arthur H. Wagner Uscg (Ret)
language : en
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Release Date : 2012
Birth Of A Legend written by Capt Arthur H. Wagner Uscg (Ret) and has been published by Trafford Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Competition for Army acquisition funding in the betrween wars depression years was fierce. The opposing camps of Fighter Supremacy versus Strategic Bombing played out at the Air Corps Tactical School (ACTS), at GHQ, before Congress and in the media. Military exercises pitted the Navy and the Air Corps in operations with real cloak and dagger background gambits, each trying to gain the upper hand. When leaders such as Benjamin Foulois, Billy Mitchell, and Frank Andrews eventually were able to foster a bomber competition to replace the Martin B-10, Boeing's four-engined Model 299 was a clear winner; but then it crashed at Dayton, and the Army opted for the Douglas B-18. Somehow, Frank Andrews had enough faith in his convictions and managed to have 13 Y1B-17s produced and sent to the 2nd Bombardment Group at Langley Field, VA. There Robert Olds and his three squadrons enthralled the country with long range goodwill flights, transcontinental speed runs with an obscure 1st Lt Curtis leMay navigating the way, and a thrilling movie "Test Pilot" starring Clark Gable, Myrna Loy, and Spencer Tracy. Fortunately for the trials of WWII, these daring young men of the Army Air Corps put their careers on the line, and made the B-17 one of the iconic weapons of that conflict. This is the untold story of the aircraft development and the men who made it happen.
Summary Of The Bomber Mafia By Malcolm Gladwell
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Author : Elite Publishers
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-05-02
Summary Of The Bomber Mafia By Malcolm Gladwell written by Elite Publishers and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-02 with categories.
Notice to Readers This is not the main book; it is just a summary by Elite Publishers. It is not meant to replace the original book. Recap of the book A wartime military training film for bombardiers explained the importance of the Norden bombsight by showing aerial photographs of enemy targets: Norden created sixty-four algorithms that he believed addressed every question of the bombing problem, including How much do the speed and direction of the wind affect the trajectory of a bomb? i This quotation comes from a 1920 letter Pershing sent to the director of the Air Service, in which he argued that the Air Service should "remain a part of the Army." He believed that air forces existed to aid the Army and should remain under its command: "If success is to be expected, the military air force must be controlled in the same way, understand the same discipline, and act in accordance with the Army command under precisely the same conditions as other combat arms." "I'd said that if the British bombed by night and the Americans by day, bombing them thus around the clock will give the devils no rest." Ira Eaker and Arthur Harris have doctrines of the bombing that are 180 degrees out from one another, completely different. It was a paper suggesting that every resource in England should be used to make bombers, to train bombing crews, to use all these bombers and bombing crews on the bombing of German working-class houses. In one of his first major statements upon taking the post, Harris quoted Hosea, one of the bleakest of the Old Testament prophets: "The Nazis entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everyone else and nobody was going to bomb them...They sowed the wind, and now they are going to reap the whirlwind." And when he came back to his airbase in England, he said, We need a new plan for the war in Europe, one that will show the British that there is a better way to wage an air war. TO KNOW MORE ABOUT THE STORY GET A COPY OF THIS SUMMARY.
Talking To Strangers
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Author : Malcolm Gladwell
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2019-09-10
Talking To Strangers written by Malcolm Gladwell and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-10 with Self-Help categories.
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'Compelling, haunting, tragic stories . . . resonate long after you put the book down' James McConnachie, Sunday Times Book of the Year The routine traffic stop that ends in tragedy. The spy who spends years undetected at the highest levels of the Pentagon. The false conviction of Amanda Knox. Why do we so often get other people wrong? Why is it so hard to detect a lie, read a face or judge a stranger's motives? Using stories of deceit and fatal errors to cast doubt on our strategies for dealing with the unknown, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual adventure into the darker side of human nature, where strangers are never simple and misreading them can have disastrous consequences.
The Bomber Mafia
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Author : Malcolm Gladwell
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2022
The Bomber Mafia written by Malcolm Gladwell and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022 with History categories.
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'A parable written for the age of technological disruption . . . brilliantly told' Sunday Times The international bestselling author returns with an exploration of one of the grandest obsessions of the twentieth century 'The Bomber Mafia is a case study in how dreams go awry. When some shiny new idea drops from the heavens, it does not land softly in our laps. It lands hard, on the ground, and shatters.' 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?
The Pathfinders
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Author : Will Iredale
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2021-07-15
The Pathfinders written by Will Iredale and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-15 with History categories.
Military History Matters Book of the Year Bronze Award Winner 'Compelling... sensitive, colourful and moving' -- Saul David, Telegraph 'Fascinating and utterly gripping' -- James Holland 'Absorbing' -- Daily Mail Book of the Week The incredible story of the crack team of men and women who transformed RAF Bomber Command and helped the Allies deliver decisive victory over Nazi Germany. The Pathfinders were ordinary men and women from a range of nations who revolutionised the efficiency of the Allies' air campaign over mainland Europe. They elevated Bomber Command - initially the only part of the Allied war effort capable of attacking the heart of Nazi Germany - from an impotent force on the cusp of disintegration in 1942 to one capable of razing whole German cities to the ground in a single night, striking with devastating accuracy, inspiring fear and loathing in Hitler's senior command. With exclusive interviews with remaining survivors, personal diaries, previously classified records and never-before seen photographs, The Pathfinders brings to life the characters of the airmen and women - many barely out of their teens - who took to the skies in legendary British aircraft such as the Lancaster and the Mosquito, facing almost unimaginable levels of violence from enemy fighter planes to strike at the heart of the Nazi war machine.