Malcolm Gladwell: What was the 'bomber mafia'? | Part 1

#WW2 #History #RevisionistHistory Can you drop a bomb from 20,000 feet into a pickle barrel? Why are ball bearings essential to warfare? And how does Malcolm Gladwell find his stories for Revisionist History? The legendary author and podcaster joined How To Academy for a third time to answer all these questions and more, in an exclusive conversation about his new book: The Bomber Mafia.

Malcolm Gladwell is the author of six international bestsellers: The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, What the Dog Saw, David and Goliath, Talking to Strangers and The Bomber Mafia. He is the host of the podcast Revisionist History and a staff writer at The New Yorker. He has spoken to CBS Sunday Morning, Munk, The Guardian, TED, Channel 4 News and Jimmy Kimmel - on topics as varied as spaghetti sauce, David and Goliath, ‘Friends’ and Underdogs.

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[danielh]

Malcolm is an incredibly engaging writer and speaker, but the more I watch him the more I discover that he oversimplifies complex topics and ineptly applies modern contexts to historical events.

[jimcy]

I've just finished my first book too but I don't keep banging on about it, it took less than 10, 000hrs to colour in but I did use two boxes of crayons.

[TheodoraWimsey]

Imagine reading a whole book about how circumstances of birth, time, and connections are the predictors of success and your take away from the book is that 10k hours of practice insure success. SMH.