![]() ![]() University of Minnesota/NACS (Minneapolis)Įagle Harbor Book Co. Garden District Book Shop Inc (New Orleans) Hickory Stick Book Shop (Washington Depot) Off the Beaten Path Bookstore (Steamboat Springs) Dalloway's Literary & Garden Arts (Berkeley) Check back soon for our grand opening date We are a collectively-owned radical bookstore and community event space in Asheville, North Carolina. In order to ensure they still have signed copies in stock and that your order will be a signed edition, please contact each store directly for details and availability.Ĭhanging Hands Bookstore (multiple locations) Our co-op is closed while we relocate to 1022 Haywood Road. PLEASE NOTE: Most bookstores are unable to create specific online listing pages for the signed editions, but all the stores on this page have confirmed that they have signed editions available while supplies last. The Bomber Mafia is a riveting tale of persistence, innovation, and the incalculable wages of war. Hansell believed in precision bombing, but when he and Curtis LeMay squared off for a leadership handover in the jungles of Guam, LeMay emerged victorious, leading to the darkest night of World War II. Things might have gone differently had LeMay’s predecessor, General Haywood Hansell, remained in charge. In The Bomber Mafia, Gladwell asks, “Was it worth it?” In contrast, the bombing of Tokyo on the deadliest night of the war was the brainchild of General Curtis LeMay, whose brutal pragmatism and scorched-earth tactics in Japan cost thousands of civilian lives, but may have spared even more by averting a planned US invasion. But a small band of idealistic strategists, the “Bomber Mafia,” asked: What if precision bombing could cripple the enemy and make war far less lethal? ![]() Most military thinkers in the years leading up to World War II saw the airplane as an afterthought. Reviews on Bookstores in Carolina Beach, NC 28428 - island book shop, Papercut Books, Old Books on Front Street, Barnes & Noble Booksellers, Used Bookery. In The Bomber Mafia, Malcolm Gladwell weaves together the stories of a Dutch genius and his homemade computer, a band of brothers in central Alabama, a British psychopath, and pyromaniacal chemists at Harvard to examine one of the greatest moral challenges in modern American history. Dive into this “truly compelling” ( Good Morning America) New York Times bestseller that explores how technology and best intentions collide in the heat of war-from the creator and host of the podcast Revisionist History. ![]()
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