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geneticginger's review against another edition
4.0
Fascinating book about the beginnings of precision bombing in WWII. Highly recommend listening to this book as an audio book because it has interviews with people and Gladwell himself narrating.
thereaderintherye's review against another edition
adventurous
informative
reflective
tense
medium-paced
3.25
mjfmjfmjf's review against another edition
3.0
Not your typical book by this author. And this is what it means to follow an author, because it is very unlikely I would have read this otherwise. It was readable and short. So the idea is simple, in the 1930's a bunch of pre us air force thought that technology had reached the point of precision bombing - that you could take out an enemies ability to wage war without targeting civilians. And apparently they were mostly wrong. And then we invented napalm and really probably could have gotten close to doing that. And instead Japan was burned to the ground targeting civilians. And in the end years later the technology for precision targeted bombing to the point of using it for assassination exists. And napalm is outlawed.
This is an ugly story but worth knowing. And it could have been told a number of different ways.
It starts up like it is really going to be a story of the bomb sight and then takes a turn.
This is an ugly story but worth knowing. And it could have been told a number of different ways.
It starts up like it is really going to be a story of the bomb sight and then takes a turn.
irishlass18's review against another edition
5.0
Had no idea what this book was even about but I love listening to Malcom Gladwell narrate so this audiobook made my must read list. Enjoyed the presentation so much.