The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War

by Malcolm Gladwell

Book Overview

Malcolm Gladwell's exploration of how technology and best intentions collide in the heat of war. In The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War, 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0316296619
• ISBN13: 9780316296618
• Release Date: April 2021
• Publisher: Little Brown and Company
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Good book

I like Gladwell so I was stoked to see him writing on the subject. Especially liked that he shot down the notion that the Norden sight was not all it was cracked up to be. Overall wish it was a longer book though, only 200 pages and small page size, I was able to read it cover to cover in a couple hours.

A magazine article that got made into a book !

Save your time and money for other books on the same subject. This one is poorly written, difuse and wanders in it's narrative. I had high hopes but was dissappointed in the result.