The Crew. The Story Of A Lancaster Bomber Crew

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Publisher: Head Of Zeus
Publisher Place: Uk
Publisher Year: 2020
Edition: First Edition

Description: 416 pages. Ex-Library. (only one small stamp on inside page). Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: A moving tribute to the sacrifice and bravery of the fliers of RAF Bomber Command. The Crew, based on interviews with Ken Cook, the crews sole surviving member, recounts the wartime exploits of the members of an Avro Lancaster crew between 1942 and the wars end. Gloucestershire-born bomb aimer Ken Cook, hard-bitten Australian pilot Jim Comans, Navigator Don Bowes, Upper Gunner George Widdis, Tail Gunner Jock Bolland, Flight Engineer Ken Randle and Radio Operator Roy Woollford were seven ordinary young men living in extraordinary times, risking their lives in freedoms cause in the dark skies above Hitlers Reich. From their earliest beginnings “ in places as far apart as a Cotswold village and the suburbs of Sydney “ through the adventure of training in North America and the dread and danger of the forty-five bombing raids they flew with 97 Squadron, David Price describes the crews wartime experiences with human sympathy allied to a secure technical understanding of one of the RAFs most iconic aircraft. The drama and anxiety of individual missions “ to Kassel, Munich and Augsburg as well as Berlin “ is evoked with thrilling immediacy; while the military events and strategic decisions that drove the RAFs area bombing campaign against Nazi Germany are interwoven deftly with the narrative of the crews operational careers.

ISBN: 9781789542707