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The Crew

By: David Price
Narrated by: Peter McGovern
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The Crew recounts the intimate, personal testimonies of Wing Commander Ken Cook, who served as Bomb Aimer with the Comans crew. The audiobook specifically follows Flying Officer Jim Comans and his crewmen from their enlistment as volunteers, through training and into operational service. The Comans crew flew 45 hazardous bombing missions - mostly deep into Germany at night - through the winter of 1943 to the summer of 1944.

At 95, Ken Cook is the crew's last survivor. Enlisting in the RAF Bomber Command at 19, his extraordinary story brings a moving insight into the bombing campaign. His experiences, particularly during the Battle of Berlin, highlight the extreme danger each bomber crew faced. With Bomber Command's casualty rate of over 44 percent, the book describes how the airmen overcame immense physical and mental challenges to survive. There are now very few surviving RAF Bomber Command airmen from the Second World War. The Crew will be one of the final eyewitness testimonies to a momentous time in our history.

©2020 David Price (P)2020 W. F. Howes Ltd Europe Great Britain Military Military & War World World War II War Survival Air Force England US Air Force Thought-Provoking Aviation

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excellent listen. really informative. showed how brave all those young men were knowing that going on every mission there was a risk of dying.

Fascinating listen

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The actual amount of time spent with the operational crew is very low. Most of the book seems to be a history lesson about the war and pre-war period. I was quite disappointed in both the book and the narration which was fairly monotone and didnt at any point assist in giving the story any presence.

not quite what it says on the tin.

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This is an enjoyable and informative book and the following of the Comans crew was a good way to tell the story.
For me the audio book was spoiled by the poor narration with its continuous mispronunciations, the narrator seems not to be a history buff, never shortening Womens Auxiliary Air Force to WAAF (Pronounced WAFF) as an example and struggles repeatedly with how to pronounce place names.

Fascinating story but poor narration

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What it lacks in the performance it more than makes up in the story.

Great insight

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very enjoyable book giving a great insight to being in bomber command during world war 2

Interesting Read

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Much like the best books about modern history this one follows a group of people though there war which creates a great personal element to it while still giving context to the bigger picture meaning you understand why they are going what there doing.

Really good

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I don't think I've ever read such a well researched and informative book. It is a great historical record of life in bomber command and the lives of a few who reflected the many.

An in depth and very well told account

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I read (listened) to this book on the back of the excellent 'Masters of the air' describing the American experience of the bombing war. This book would have been done justice had it been read by a narrator of the same calibre as that of 'Masters of the air'. It felt as though I was being read to by a teacher educating a nursery school class or to someone who does't speak English as their first language. Apart from that, I found the book hugely educational and learned much about the airmen of Bomber Cmds experiences compared to their their American counterparts. A very good book marred by poor narration which is probably best digested by reading rather than listening.

Very good but spoiled by poor narration

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Excellent attention to detail, recommend listening more than once to not miss anything. Early chapters didn't totally interest me greatly but good back ground to a complete overall story.

Most Interesting

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Really enjoyed the book. A great narration and insight into the lives of a bomber crew.

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