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An exploration of how technology and best intentions collide in the heat of war 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. Most military thinkers in the years leading up to World War II saw the airplane as an afterthought. But a small band of idealistic strategists had a different view. This "Bomber Mafia" asked: What if precision bombing could, just by...

El progreso técnico, económico y demográfico en el campo y en las pujantes ciudades permitirá a la sociedad europea salir de sus límites geográficos. Las ciudades constituyen el marco del desarrollo de la producción artesanal y el embrión de nuevas clases sociales. La otra cara de la moneda es la crisis iniciada a fines del siglo XIII y que se prolongará en el siguiente: peste, hambrunas, revueltas sociales y guerras diezman a la población. Tras el análisis de las transformaciones políticas, con el desarrollo de las monarquías europeas en detrimento del poder imperial, y su...