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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 pen 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 in 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 torped, rudderly nonsense like the B-29 Bomber

Drone-On to 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.

But today, row casually off of briefing offices lips.

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