The Crew
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The Crew
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Narrated by:
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Peter McGovern
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By:
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David Price
About this listen
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 LtdWhat listeners say about The Crew
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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- KNOBBY
- 10-07-2020
Great audio.
A must for anyone with an interest in Bomber Command of the Second world war.
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
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- Anonymous User
- 17-11-2020
not what I expected
great book but more about the bomber command strategy than the actual crews lives.
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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- Anonymous User
- 13-12-2022
An excellent telling of the WWII bombing
An excellent story, really informative, an amazing insight in to what it was like as a bomber crew during WWII, the only downfall to the book is the starting chapters are very long with a lot of information however it is really informative and good to set the tone/story line of the book.
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- rod walker
- 10-05-2024
weak delivery
Slow to get going.
Narrator had poor command of some of the jargon and accronyms.
Narrator often sounded like he was reading a script rather than telling a story in a flowing style.
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