Malcom Gladwell’s “The Bomber Mafia” and James M. Scott’s “Black Snow” continue the debate over U.S. military actions at the end of World War II.

He attempts a deep dive into history with The Bomber Mafia, his seventh non-fiction title, which is loosely based off episodes in his regular podcast Revisionist History.

Malcom Gladwell says The Bomber Mafia marks a departure for him stylistically as a writer as he has never told a story before that was just one narrative with no social science. But there is a ...

The U.S. bombing campaign that targeted Japan’s cities in 1945 produced staggering civilian casualties. Military planners concluded that such destruction was necessary to end the war.