A review by arounds
The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War by Malcolm Gladwell

4.0

I think we are so often given the golly-gee-ain’t-‘Merica-great version in history books when studying WWII in school. It is from books like this where real stories come to life as actual people battle their morals as well as a war throughout the real events. Heroes depend on who wins, right? Who gets to mold the conversation, the victor, gets to tell their heroic story… This book shows the darker and more human side of decisions America made during the war. I am convinced with the devastating bombings of Japan using napalm were enough to make Japan surrender without the catastrophic usage of atomic weapons.