The book, subtitled “ A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War,” dramatizes the debate at the heart of the growing use of airpower in the war-the dispute between the two schools of thought about strategic bombing in WWII: high-altitude precision targeting and unrestrained area bombing of cities. In The Bomber Mafia, Malcolm Gladwell departs from the precincts of social psychology he knows so well ( The Tipping Point, Talking to Strangers, Outliers) and ventures into the history of World War II.
