

Aircrew
The Story of the Men Who Flew the Bombers
Author: Bruce Lewis
Narrator: Roger Davis
Unabridged: 8 hr 30 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Published: 08/18/2022
Categories: Nonfiction, History, Wars, World War Ii, Military History, Veterans, Biography & Autobiography, Memoirs
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Bonus Material
Synopsis
The British and American bomber crews of the Second World War often had to endure the most terrifying conditions. Not for them the glorious, all-or-nothing exhilaration of the Battle of Britain pilots - rather, the slow dwindling of courage as mission followed mission, the long, freezing, ear-shattering journey to the target, the bursting flak, the prowling night fighters. Then, if they were lucky, the long haul home, sometimes nursing a battered, barely flyable machine, often perilously short of fuel.
Bruce Lewis flew in thirty-six such raids. In this book he records, in his own words and those of his fellow survivors, the events that made operational flying such a fearful experience.
This is a blisteringly honest account of life for the Second World War bombers.