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Laddar... The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War (2021)av Malcolm Gladwell
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. NF This was my one and only book by Malcolm Gladwell and I am pretty disappointed. I have read quite a bit on WWII and military history. While I appreciate the snippets of audio from the era in question, there are factual inaccuracies in the book. I'm not familiar with Gladwell's work but this being in the history genre, I was hoping this would be a book on the bombing campaign in the Japanese Theater of WWII free of the author's opinions. I was wrong. Gladwell traces the history of precision bombing, the idea and the practice, from the initial introduction of airplanes into the military up to the appalling firebomb attack on Tokyo of March 1945. Two parallel theories, aspirations really coexist, and although Gladwell seeks to distinguish (and dramatise) them and their advocates (“believers“), it’s evident that strategies in practice could draw from both ideas: was bombing to be a way of limiting war by using technology so surgically and precisely as to disable the enemy with minimal “extra” casualties, or, was its purpose, the opposite in some ways, widening the war by inflicting such devastating damage as to, hopefully, bring the war to a swift end, and so in *that* sense, limit the war? The history, the personalities, and the tone of affable discovery are all nicely delivered, as is Gladwell’s trademark. And yet this breezily short book still left lots of questions hanging for this reader - of the historical events, but also of ethics. How necessary was the extended firebombing campaign acrossJapan that followed the Tokyo raid, were all those repeat attacks needed to achieve the surrender that ended the war? And has the recent UN treaty banning such incendiary weapons (thrown in here as a footnote on the final page) now resolved the questions of legitimacy? inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
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