The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
(Kindle Book, OverDrive Read)

Book Cover for "The Bomber Mafia"
Your Rating: 0 stars
Star rating for
Author:
Gladwell, Malcolm
Published:
Little, Brown and Company 2021
Format:
Kindle Book, OverDrive Read
Status:
Checked Out

Description

Dive into this “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.

Also in This Series

Formats

Kindle Book
Works on Kindles and devices with a Kindle app installed.
Sample 
OverDrive Read
Sample 
Need Help?
If you are having problem transferring a title to your device, please fill out this support form or visit the library so we can help you to use our eBooks and eAudio Books.

More Like This

Other Editions and Formats

Choose a Format
On Shelf
East Hampton Adult Nonfiction
940.54 GLA
Available from another library
Checked Out
3 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 5 people are on the wait list.

Subjects

Subjects
History
Military
Nonfiction

More Details

Street Date:
04/27/2021
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780316296939
ASIN:
B08TWKL363

Borrower Reviews

Librarian Reviews

Published Reviews

Reviews from GoodReads

Loading GoodReads Reviews.

Citations

APA Citation (style guide)

Malcolm Gladwell. (2021). The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War. Little, Brown and Company.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)

Malcolm Gladwell. 2021. The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War. Little, Brown and Company.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)

Malcolm Gladwell, The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War. Little, Brown and Company, 2021.

MLA Citation (style guide)

Malcolm Gladwell. The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War. Little, Brown and Company, 2021.

Note! Citation formats are based on standards as of July 2022. Citations contain only title, author, edition, publisher, and year published. Citations should be used as a guideline and should be double checked for accuracy.

Copy Details

LibraryOwnedAvailable
Shared Digital Collection10
East Hampton Public Library00

There are 5 holds on this title.

Staff View

Grouped Work ID:
05432b6b-8ebd-6f58-7938-7f7e1b411e2f
Go To Grouped Work

API Extraction Dates

Needs Update?:
No
Date Added:
May 22, 2021 11:15:35
Date Updated:
May 18, 2022 06:52:19
Last Metadata Check:
Jan 20, 2025 04:51:45
Last Metadata Change:
Nov 20, 2024 18:30:57
Last Availability Check:
Jan 20, 2025 04:52:17
Last Availability Change:
Jan 20, 2025 04:52:17
Last Grouped Work Modification Time:
Jan 20, 2025 22:18:40

OverDrive Product Record

images
    • cover:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/0017-1/{911BE486-2679-4198-9390-2723273D36DA}IMG100.JPG
    • thumbnail:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/0017-1/{911BE486-2679-4198-9390-2723273D36DA}IMG200.JPG
    • cover150Wide:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/0017-1/{911BE486-2679-4198-9390-2723273D36DA}IMG150.JPG
    • cover300Wide:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/0017-1/{911BE486-2679-4198-9390-2723273D36DA}IMG400.JPG
formats
      • identifiers:
            • type: ISBN
            • value: 9780316297486
      • name: Adobe EPUB eBook
      • id: ebook-epub-adobe
      • identifiers:
            • type: ASIN
            • value: B08TWKL363
            • type: ISBN
            • value: 9780316297486
      • name: Kindle Book
      • id: ebook-kindle
      • identifiers:
            • type: ISBN
            • value: 9780316297486
      • name: OverDrive Read
      • id: ebook-overdrive
mediaType
eBook
primaryCreator
    • role: Author
    • name: Malcolm Gladwell
title
The Bomber Mafia
dateAdded
2021-05-22T15:06:00Z
contentDetails
      • href: https://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=242&titleID=6224405
      • type: text/html
      • account:
          • name: LION: Libraries Online (CT)
          • id: 1354
sortTitle
Bomber Mafia A Dream a Temptation and the Longest Night of the Second World War
crossRefId
6224405
subtitle
A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
id
911BE486-2679-4198-9390-2723273D36DA
starRating
3.8

OverDrive MetaData

isPublicDomain
False
images
    • cover:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/0017-1/{911BE486-2679-4198-9390-2723273D36DA}IMG100.JPG
        • type: image/jpeg
    • thumbnail:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/0017-1/{911BE486-2679-4198-9390-2723273D36DA}IMG200.JPG
        • type: image/jpeg
    • cover150Wide:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/0017-1/{911BE486-2679-4198-9390-2723273D36DA}IMG150.JPG
        • type: image/jpeg
    • cover300Wide:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/0017-1/{911BE486-2679-4198-9390-2723273D36DA}IMG400.JPG
        • type: image/jpeg
isPublicPerformanceAllowed
False
formats
      • fileName: TheBomberMafia_6224405
      • partCount: 0
      • fileSize: 0
      • identifiers:
            • type: ASIN
            • value: B08TWKL363
      • name: Kindle Book
      • isReadAlong: False
      • id: ebook-kindle
      • onSaleDate: 4/27/2021
      • samples:
            • source: From the book
            • formatType: ebook-overdrive
            • url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=911be486-2679-4198-9390-2723273d36da&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
      • fileName: TheBomberMafia_9780316296939_6224405
      • partCount: 0
      • fileSize: 0
      • identifiers:
            • type: ISBN
            • value: 9780316296939
      • name: OverDrive Read
      • isReadAlong: False
      • id: ebook-overdrive
      • onSaleDate: 4/27/2021
      • samples:
            • source: From the book
            • formatType: ebook-overdrive
            • url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=911be486-2679-4198-9390-2723273d36da&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
languages
      • code: en
      • name: English
creators
      • role: Author
      • fileAs: Gladwell, Malcolm
      • bioText: Malcom Gladwell is the author of seven New York Times bestsellers: The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, What the Dog Saw, David and Goliath, Talking to Strangers, and The Bomber Mafia. He is also the cofounder of Pushkin Industries, an audiobook and podcast production company. He was born in England, grew up in rural Ontario, and now lives in New York.
      • name: Malcolm Gladwell
subjects
      • value: History
      • value: Military
      • value: Nonfiction
publishDate
2021-04-27T00:00:00Z
publishDateText
04/27/2021
otherFormatIdentifiers
      • type: ISBN
      • value: 9780316296618
mediaType
eBook
shortDescription

Dive into this “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...
isOwnedByCollections
True
title
The Bomber Mafia
fullDescription

Dive into this “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.
sortTitle
Bomber Mafia A Dream a Temptation and the Longest Night of the Second World War
crossRefId
6224405
subtitle
A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
popularity
2915
publisher
Little, Brown and Company
links
    • self:
        • href: https://api.overdrive.com/v1/collections/v1L1BPQEAAA20/products/911be486-2679-4198-9390-2723273d36da/metadata
        • type: application/vnd.overdrive.api+json
    • shareInLibby:
        • href: https://link.overdrive.com/share?q=FfpeADHmp90
        • type: text/HTML
id
911be486-2679-4198-9390-2723273d36da
starRating
3.9
bisacCodes
      • code: HIS027100
      • description: History / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General
      • code: HIS027140
      • description: History / Military / Aviation & Space
      • code: HIS053000
      • description: History / Oceania