The international bestselling author returns with an exploration of one of the grandest obsessions of the twentieth century
Malcolm Gladwell is the author of six international bestsellers- The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, What the Dog Saw, David and Goliath and most recently, Talking to Strangers. He is the host of the podcast Revisionist History, a staff writer at the New Yorker, and co-founder of the audio company Pushkin Industries. He graduated from the University of Toronto, Trinity College, with a degree in history. Gladwell was born in England and grew up in rural Ontario. He lives in New York.
A parable written for the age of technological disruption . . .
brilliantly told
*Sunday Times*
Remarkable . . . a work of art . . . one puts this book down
shaking one's head at the folly and human cost of it all
*Wall Street Journal*
Gripping . . . in Gladwell's deft hands, the Air Force generals of
World War II come back to life as the stirring 20th-century
equivalent of Adm. Horatio Nelson and his band of audacious
captains from the age of fighting sail . . . Gladwell is a
wonderful storyteller
*The New York Times*
Impassioned . . . engagingly written
*Telegraph*
Riveting . . .The Bomber Mafia looks at one of the greatest moral
challenges of the Second World War
*author of The Fifth Risk*
Told with the muscular, driving narrative and fizzingly charismatic
(real-life) characters of a movie
*Radio Times*
A thought-provoking, accessible account of how people respond to
difficult choices in difficult times . . . Gladwell's easy
conversational style works well . . . his portraits of individuals
are compelling
*Washington Post*
Unexpected empathy . . . fabulistic energy
*Esquire*
Lively, engaging . . . a fascinating story
*The Times*
Important and characteristically readable . . . Gladwell is
possibly the most confident storyteller in non-fiction. He always
knows exactly where he is going, and he takes you with him in
pleasure and comfort.
*New Statesman*
Gladwell's eloquence and flair for lateral thinking make for a
compelling read
*Mail on Sunday*
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