The bomber mafia (Record no. 67236)
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| fixed length control field | 01826nam a2200205 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 9780141998374 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 358.414 |
| Item number | GLA/B |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Gladwell, Malcolm |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The bomber mafia |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication | UK |
| Name of publisher | Penguin Random House |
| Year of publication | 2021 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | 237 p. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | 'A parable written for the age of technological disruption . . . brilliantly told' Sunday Times<br/><br/>The international bestselling author returns with an exploration of one of the grandest obsessions of the twentieth century<br/><br/>'The Bomber Mafia is a case study in how dreams go awry. When some shiny new idea drops from the heavens, it does not land softly in our laps. It lands hard, on the ground, and shatters.'<br/><br/>In the years before the Second World War, in a sleepy air force base in central Alabama, a small group of renegade pilots put forth a radical idea. What if we made bombing so accurate that wars could be fought entirely from the air? What if we could make the brutal clashes between armies on the ground a thing of the past?<br/><br/>This book tells the story of what happened when that dream was put to the test. The Bomber Mafia follows the stories of a reclusive Dutch genius and his homemade computer, Winston Churchill's forbidding best friend, a team of pyromaniacal chemists at Harvard, a brilliant pilot who sang vaudeville tunes to his crew, and the bomber commander, Curtis Emerson LeMay, who would order the bloodiest attack of the Second World War.<br/><br/>In this tale of innovation and obsession, Gladwell asks: what happens when technology and best intentions collide in the heat of war? And what is the price of progress? |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Precision bombing |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Military operations, Aerial |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Aeronautics, Military |
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| Topical Term | Strategy |
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| Topical Term | Japan |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Bombing, Aerial |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | BK |
| 952 ## - LOCATION AND ITEM INFORMATION (KOHA) | |
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| Collection code | Home library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Cost, normal purchase price | Full call number | Accession Number | Koha item type |
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| Stack | Kannur University Central Library | Stack | 14/07/2023 | 599.00 | 358.414 GLA/B | 59213 | BK |