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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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Struggling to finish this if I'm honest.
Read by someone with limited appreciation of the effect of punctuation on delivery.
Someone who has no personal knowledge of the subject judging by the often strange pronunciation of certain words.

Not very well read

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Very interesting book about Bomber Command. The Crew isn't solely about a single crew entirely but uses a specific crew as more of an example. More than half the book relates to the strategy,history and aircraft of Bomber Command.

Worth a read/listen

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poorly narrated with too many mistakes when he fails to read the full sentence and stutters. Quite a monotone style that makes the whole thing sound like a drab brain dump. Questionable and very cursory, and clearly biased rationalisation of morally questionable bombing rounds it off with a touch of inhumanity. I learned a lot about the plane, and minor daily life, but too much of a stream of consciousness and badly paced or separated.

Dull stream of consciousness often wandering off

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