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A riveting exploration of the unforeseen consequences of technological disruption, from the no.1 international bestselling author
What is the price of progress?
In this tale of innovation and obsession Gladwell revisits one of the bloodiest attacks of the Second World War to show what happens when technological inventions slip out of our control.
Weaving together the stories of a group of renegade pilots, the ruthless bomber commander of the US Air Force, a reclusive Dutch genius and his homemade computer, a team of pyromaniacal chemists at Harvard and Winston Churchill's forbidding best friend, The Bomber Mafia invites us to rethink the moral certainties, good intentions and unforeseen consequences that so often accompany shiny new inventions.
A riveting exploration of the unforeseen consequences of technological disruption, from the no.1 international bestselling author
What is the price of progress?
In this tale of innovation and obsession Gladwell revisits one of the bloodiest attacks of the Second World War to show what happens when technological inventions slip out of our control.
Weaving together the stories of a group of renegade pilots, the ruthless bomber commander of the US Air Force, a reclusive Dutch genius and his homemade computer, a team of pyromaniacal chemists at Harvard and Winston Churchill's forbidding best friend, The Bomber Mafia invites us to rethink the moral certainties, good intentions and unforeseen consequences that so often accompany shiny new inventions.
Malcolm Gladwell is the author of six international bestsellers- The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, What the Dog Saw, David and Goliath and most recently, Talking to Strangers. He is the host of the podcast Revisionist History, a staff writer at The New Yorker, and co-founder of the audio company Pushkin Industries. He graduated from the University of Toronto, Trinity College, with a degree in history. Gladwell was born in England and grew up in rural Ontario. He lives in New York.
A parable written for the age of technological disruption . . .
brilliantly told
*Sunday Times*
Remarkable . . . a work of art . . . one puts this book down
shaking one's head at the folly and human cost of it all
*Wall Street Journal*
Gripping . . . in Gladwell's deft hands, the Air Force generals of
World War II come back to life as the stirring 20th-century
equivalent of Adm. Horatio Nelson and his band of audacious
captains from the age of fighting sail . . . Gladwell is a
wonderful storyteller
*The New York Times*
Impassioned . . . engagingly written
*Telegraph*
Riveting . . .The Bomber Mafia looks at one of the greatest moral
challenges of the Second World War
*author of The Fifth Risk*
Told with the muscular, driving narrative and fizzingly charismatic
(real-life) characters of a movie
*Radio Times*
A thought-provoking, accessible account of how people respond to
difficult choices in difficult times . . . Gladwell's easy
conversational style works well . . . his portraits of individuals
are compelling
*Washington Post*
Unexpected empathy . . . fabulistic energy
*Esquire*
Lively, engaging . . . a fascinating story
*The Times*
Important and characteristically readable . . . Gladwell is
possibly the most confident storyteller in non-fiction. He always
knows exactly where he is going, and he takes you with him in
pleasure and comfort.
*New Statesman*
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