Last year, Malcom Gladwell’s “The Bomber Mafia” explored what the author called the “darkest night of the Second World War” – the March 9-10, 1945 firebombing of Tokyo, which killed more than 100,000 Japanese citizens, mostly civilians. Tokyo’s residents were burned and scalded by what one survivor called “a blazing hell,” and what one U.S. flyer described as a “sea …
