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The Bomber Mafia

A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
  • Malcolm Gladwell
2021
Little, Brown and Company

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Featured Excerpts

  • An American propaganda leaflet dropped ahead of Curtis LeMay’s firebomb campaign over Japan.
    Book Review

    Narrative Napalm

    Malcolm Gladwell’s apologia for American butchery.
    by Noah Kulwin via The Baffler on May 17, 2021
  • Curtis LeMay holding plans for the bombing of Tokyo.
    Book Review

    Malcolm Gladwell on the Hard Decisions of War

    Gladwell’s “The Bomber Mafia” looks at the air campaign against Japan in World War II and finds a surprising hero in Curtis LeMay.
    by Thomas E. Ricks via New York Times on April 25, 2021

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An aerial view of a firebombed area in Tokyo in 1945.

When Tokyo Burned

“Paper City” explores the forgotten firebombing of Japan’s capital.
by Spencer Cohen via Foreign Policy on May 29, 2022
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