The Bomber Mafia: A Story Set in War
Author: Gladwell, Malcolm
ISBN: 9780141998374
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year First Published: 2022
Pages: 256
Dimensions: 198mm x 130mm x 21mm
Format: Hardback
Description:
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.
ISBN: 9780141998374
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year First Published: 2022
Pages: 256
Dimensions: 198mm x 130mm x 21mm
Format: Hardback
Description:
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.
