The Crew, based on interviews with Ken Cook, the crew's sole surviving
member, recounts the wartime exploits of the members of an Avro
Lancaster crew between 1942 and the war's end. Gloucestershire-born bomb
aimer Ken Cook, 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
risking their lives in the dark skies above Hitler's Reich. From their
earliest beginnings through training in North America and the danger of
the 45 bombing raids they flew with 97 Squadron, David Price describes
the crew's wartime experiences with human sympathy allied to a technical
understanding of one of the RAF's 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 are interwoven deftly with the narrative of the
crew's operational careers.