Kyle Harrison
to-read
The Bomber Mafia
The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
- Author
- Malcolm Gladwell
- Published
- 2021
- Pages
- 256
- Recommended
- 2 times
Why it’s on the list: The Air Corps Tactical School officers who believed precision bombing could win a war bloodlessly, and Curtis LeMay, who abandoned the idea over Tokyo — a case study in a technology whose promise (the Norden bombsight) could not survive contact with weather, altitude and war.
Where I heard about it
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Spotted at SFO — July 2022 (Books photo album)
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@moseskagan’s thread — named, though it is non-fiction, in the replies to his question “What historical fiction should I read next? (Bonus points for something involving building or trade, rather than violence)” in the thread, April 2025. The full list of replies lives on What historical fiction should I… (tweet).
Connections
- What historical fiction should I… (tweet) — the thread this came out of; the full recovered list lives there.
- Malcolm Gladwell — the author.
- World War II — the setting.