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A review by harinid
The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War by Malcolm Gladwell
4.0
For the history buffs and particularly for those who enjoy contemporary world war 2 history, The Bomber Mafia would read as a new discovery. A discussion on an internal strategy of the US Air Forces during the war that one may not have encountered in the mainstream narrative of the war.
I would have wanted a discussion into when precision bombing did actually come into the realm of realistic possibility. Given that Gladwell pushes his hypothesis of precision bombing resulting in fewer deaths in war and more decisive wars, the book has an abrupt ending. It ends with the failure of the idea in the second world war due to the bomber's inability to target precisely and then just a short paragraph concluding that post second world war this was achieved. That required a further exploration on my point given the author's hypothesis.
A fun read on a peculiar story during the second world war nonetheless!
I would have wanted a discussion into when precision bombing did actually come into the realm of realistic possibility. Given that Gladwell pushes his hypothesis of precision bombing resulting in fewer deaths in war and more decisive wars, the book has an abrupt ending. It ends with the failure of the idea in the second world war due to the bomber's inability to target precisely and then just a short paragraph concluding that post second world war this was achieved. That required a further exploration on my point given the author's hypothesis.
A fun read on a peculiar story during the second world war nonetheless!