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Author Malcolm Gladwell has doubled down on the claim made in his new book that Bomber Harris was a psychopath , despite criticism from the war hero s grandson.
Gladwell criticised the World War Two chief of the Royal Air Force s Bomber Command, whose full name was Sir Arthur Harris, in his book The Bomber Mafia: A Story Set in War.
Sir Arthur received his popular nickname after orchestrating the RAF s hugely controversial strategic bombing of German cities, in which civilian areas were deliberately targeted.
Over the course of the war, between 300,000 and 600,000 civilians were killed by Allied bombing, which almost totally destroyed cities such as Dresden.