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The Crew
- Narrated by: Peter McGovern
- Length: 13 hrs and 36 mins
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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.
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- N. Bowdren
- 29-02-24
Fascinating listen
excellent listen. really informative. showed how brave all those young men were knowing that going on every mission there was a risk of dying.
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- John Perry
- 16-03-21
Most Interesting
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.
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- Mr A G T Holland
- 14-03-23
The Crew
Really enjoyed the book. A great narration and insight into the lives of a bomber crew.
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- Mr Lightyear
- 16-04-21
very good
excellent book and fascinating, the only criticism is the reader needed to get the pronunciation of place names correct. Otherwise very enjoyable!
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- Jade
- 21-01-21
Fantastic!
A brilliantly well written book that captures the imagination of what it must of been like flying at night on raid after raid. Incredibly brave men.
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- cj
- 01-04-24
Interesting account of life on Bomber crew
Mostly enjoyed the book apart from some very dodgy pronunciation of French towns (It is NOT “clearmont” Ferrand!).
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- Paul.C
- 12-02-20
Fascinating story but poor narration
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.
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- Liam McMunn
- 19-01-21
Great insight
What it lacks in the performance it more than makes up in the story.
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- Gary T.
- 30-10-20
Interesting Read
very enjoyable book giving a great insight to being in bomber command during world war 2
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- robert
- 23-03-20
Really good
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.
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