{"product_id":"the-bomber-mafia","title":"The Bomber Mafia","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA dream. A temptation. The longest night of the Second World War — Malcolm Gladwell's gripping account of the biggest moral dilemma in the history of air power.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the 1930s, a small band of renegade pilots at an air base in Alabama — nicknamed the “Bomber Mafia” — nursed a radical dream: what if precision bombing could make war itself almost bloodless? What if you could cripple an enemy by dropping a bomb down a smokestack, destroying factories without touching the people around them?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen the Second World War came, and the dream collided with reality — with clouds, wind, human error, and the terrible mathematics of the Pacific. In the story of General Haywood Hansell, the true believer, and General Curtis LeMay, the pragmatist who replaced him, Gladwell traces how the most idealistic idea in military history ended in the firebombing of Tokyo — the deadliest single night of the war — and asks the question that still haunts every conflict since: what price progress? What cost victory?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTold with Gladwell's trademark storytelling — obsessive characters, Dutch chemists inventing napalm, proximity fuzes and moral reckonings — \u003cem\u003eThe Bomber Mafia\u003c\/em\u003e reads like a thriller and argues like a philosophy seminar.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAbout the author\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMalcolm Gladwell\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of seven New York Times bestsellers, including \u003cem\u003eThe Tipping Point\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBlink\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eOutliers\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eTalking to Strangers\u003c\/em\u003e, and the host of the Revisionist History podcast — where this book began.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003ePerfect for readers of\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSapiens\u003c\/em\u003e, Dan Wang's \u003cem\u003eBreakneck\u003c\/em\u003e, military history that argues about ideas — and every Gladwell fan who hasn't met his most cinematic book.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52107333763288,"sku":"9780141998374","price":699.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0818\/1471\/6632\/files\/91qrG23FjnL.jpg?v=1785503527","url":"https:\/\/www.readersparadise.co\/products\/the-bomber-mafia","provider":"Readers Paradise","version":"1.0","type":"link"}