Presenting: The Bomber Mafia by Malcolm Gladwell

Revisionist History

Pushkin Industries

Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2021

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Season 5 of Revisionist History included four episodes on the rise of air power during the Second World War. Listeners met Air Force generals Haywood Hansell and Curtis LeMay and heard about the birth of napalm and the firebombing of Tokyo. Malcolm couldn't get that story out of his mind, and so he built an entirely new audiobook around it. The Bomber Mafia.

The Bomber Mafia thought they could re-invent war, in part because of a reclusive genius named Carl Norden. In this excerpt, you hear more about him and his game changing invention, the Norden Bombsight.

If you loved those episodes, you'll be in history heaven with The Bomber Mafia. It features more archival footage, new writing, and enhanced scoring. It's a totally new experience. Purchase the audiobook at www.bombermafia.com, and you'll receive a free Listener's Guide featuring new commentary from Malcolm. Print and ebook editions available wherever books are sold.

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0:00.0	Pushkin.
0:11.2	Hello, hello patient listeners, Malcolm Gladwell here.
0:15.0	Today is a very big day for me.
0:17.2	It is the launch of my newest book, The Bomber Mafia,
0:20.4	A Dream, Attemptation, and The Longest Night of the Second World War.
0:24.9	You can buy The Bomber Mafia from Audible or Apple Books
0:28.8	or any place you usually get books.
0:31.6	It's available in print and e-book and audiobook.
0:35.0	But I urge you to buy the audio directly from Bomber Mafia.com.
0:40.5	When you do, you'll be able to listen in whatever podcast app
0:43.7	you're using now and you'll receive an exclusive listeners guide
0:48.0	that includes photos and behind the scenes commentary
0:52.0	from my crack production team.
0:55.0	Those of you who are devoted revisionist history listeners
0:58.4	will remember that last season I did four episodes
1:01.2	on the fire bombing of Tokyo at the end of the Second World War,
1:04.8	Curtis Lemais, the birth of Napalm,
1:07.3	the war over the skies of Tokyo in the spring of 1945.
1:11.0	It was all prompted by a trip I took to Japan
1:13.8	and a visit to a tiny museum on a side street in Tokyo
1:17.8	that left me devastated.
1:20.1	After the season was over, I couldn't get that story out of my mind
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