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Pushkin.

Hello there, Pushkin listeners.

This is Malcolm Gladwell.

I'm the president of Pushkin Industries and host of revisionist history, but I'm here today as an author.

I've written half a dozen books such as outliers and blink, but my new book,

The Bomber Mafia, is something different. First, it's a work of history, telling the story of how

a new technology, air power, upended the nature of modern warfare during the Second World War.

It's also the first book I wrote to be heard rather than read.

You can get the print version of the bomber mafia, wherever you usually get your books, and I love my

readers, but I urge you to listen. The bomber mafia is not your typical audiobook. I didn't record it in a booth, solitary and pedantic.

I worked with a whole team of sound engineers, researchers, editors, musicians, wizards of every kind.

They were building the mightiest aircraft in history.

I mean, would you rather I just read some torpid rudderly nonsense like the B-29 bomber

droned on through the night sky?

Or would you rather hear it for yourself?

And the assembled airmen will listen to words that a few years ago would have been fantastic.

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