El clan de los bombarderos

During the years leading up to World War II, at an Alabama air base, a group of renegade pilots forged a radical idea. What if bombing was so precise that wars could only be fought from the air? Could brutal clashes between ground armies become a thing of the past? This book tells what happened when he tried to put that dream into practice. Malcolm Gladwell follows in the footsteps of a Dutch genius and his homemade analog computer, the group of Harvard arsonist scientists who invented napalm, a brilliant pilot who sang tunes to his crew, and Commander LeMay, who would order one of the bloodiest attacks ever. of the Second World War. In true Gladwell fashion, Gladwell capitalizes on all of these fascinating characters and nimbly walks us through a series of dilemmas that changed the course of history to make us wonder what the price of the game can often be. progress.