David Fedman

David Fedman is associate professor of history at the University of California, Irvine. With Cary Karacas, he maintains JapanAirRaids.org, a bilingual digital archive dedicated to the dissemination of information about the strategic bombing of Japan during World War II.

When Pop History Bombs: A Response to Malcolm Gladwell’s Love Letter to American Air Power

A grossly simplified view of the United States bombing campaign over Japan in World War II favors dramatic personalities over the reality....

DAVID FEDMAN, CARY KARACAS

HISTORY

The Scorched-Earth Generation

THE CHAPTER that gives Akiyuki Nosaka’s recently translated collection of children’s stories its title relates the tale of a whale that falls in love with a submarine. A “complete flop with the ladies,” the sardine whale is frantic to ...

DAVID FEDMAN

FICTION

YOUNG ADULT & CHILDREN’S LITERATURE