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Malcolm Gladwell's 2020 season of Revisionist History mostly focused on Curtis LeMay, the development of napalm, and the firebombing of Tokyo. https://www.push
by cushychicken 5y ago
Malcolm Gladwell's 2020 season of Revisionist History mostly focused on Curtis LeMay, the development of napalm, and the firebombing of Tokyo.
https://www.pushkin.fm/episode/the-bomber-mafia/ https://www.pushkin.fm/episode/the-bomber-mafia/
Fascinating and horrifying.
- BasilPH 5y agoI came here to post this, glad you already did. It's honestly one of the best things I've ever listened to. I find it amazing how he can paint such a nuanced picture of such a complex and horrific topic which lends itself so easily to taking a black-and-white view.
- cushychicken 5y agoLeMay knew exactly how horrid of a thing he'd spearheaded, too. "If we hadn't won, I'd have been executed as a war criminal."
- tpowell 5y agoThey turned this podcast into an excellent book, and the audiobook gets all of the same treatments as the podcast: https://books.apple.com/us/audiobook/the-bomber-mafia-a-dream-a-temptation/id1560431588 https://books.apple.com/us/audiobook/the-bomber-mafia-a-drea...