Reviews tagging 'Fire/Fire injury'

The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War by Malcolm Gladwell

14 reviews

sweaterdad's review against another edition

challenging dark informative sad medium-paced

3.75

I think knowing that this was originally meant to be a podcast is helpful to frame this book—I listened to it as an audiobook to get the full effect. I feel like it was more impactful that way. 

I’m not huge into content about war and military, but I still found it somewhat interesting. I also don’t understand Gladwell’s fascination with the bomber mafia - like yeah, I get that they were trying to do something unheard of at the time, but I don’t fully buy into the ‘less of a bad guy’  description of Haywood Hansell. Don’t get me wrong, LeMay sounds like a completely deranged war criminal, but as Gladwell even admits at some point - “no war is good.” 

I think if anything, this book just proved to me time and time again how terrible of a country the United States is and that we are often at the core of so much suffering.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Fire/Fire injury, and War

signachi's review against another edition

dark informative tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, War, and Injury/Injury detail

sas_lk's review against another edition

3.0

This was one of the best audiobook productions I've heard. The book itself, it was not bad, I think I was just not that intrigued. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Fire/Fire injury, and War

florencedobie's review against another edition

informative reflective fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death and Fire/Fire injury

jstorms19's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark informative reflective tense fast-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Violence, Fire/Fire injury, War, and Injury/Injury detail

r_zoner's review against another edition

dark informative sad tense medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury and War

justcallmeemily's review against another edition

funny informative inspiring medium-paced

4.5

This felt like watching a documentary or a video essay. I definitely recommend the audiobook.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Fire/Fire injury, and War

Moderate: Racism and Violence

jspelman14's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective tense slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Fire/Fire injury, War, and Injury/Injury detail

fallenstarr's review against another edition

informative reflective medium-paced

3.0

This isn't my usual genre, even within non-fiction I'm not usually drawn to these types of topics. It was informative, interesting, and the writing style was easy to read (even though the subject matter wasn't always what i would call easy reading). I would probably suggest it to people I know are interested in history or the airforce, but this wasn't so life changing and earth shattering amazing that I'm going to run around suggesting it to everybody I know.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Fire/Fire injury, and War

Moderate: Child death, Genocide, Violence, Antisemitism, and Colonisation

Minor: Racial slurs and Suicide

thecasualbooknerd's review

informative reflective slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Gun violence, Fire/Fire injury, and War