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

Renowned journalist and writer Malcolm Gladwell tells the story of a group of US aviators obsessed with precision bombing, a military doctrine that could potentially reduce enemy and civilian casualties. For the 30s of the 20th century, this idea was revolutionary: instead of destroying all life on a vast territory with carpet bombing, the "bomber mafia" proposed using new-class aircraft that coul...