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Kaplan, Hannah
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Fiction
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2015
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Kapcom Publishing
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English
β 163 KB
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The Crew
β Scribed by Mayhew, Margaret
- Book ID
- 109167327
- Publisher
- Transworld
- Year
- 1997
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 197 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780552144926
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
A Lancaster bomber required a crew of seven men. Van, the pilot is American, Jock, Flight Engineer a Scot. Piers, the hopeless navigator is a foppish aristocrat - 'Frightfully sorry, Skipper, not absolutely sure where we are'. The bomb aimer is an Aussie. Wireless operator a London cockney who was 'older than God', a mid-upper gunner with terrible eyesight, and the most heartrending of all, the rear gunner, dragged backwards in a fishbowl through the sky, a seventeen-year-old who had lied about his age to get into the air force. They are all appalling at the beginning of the book. The pilot nearly crashes them on the first landing, they don't get on all that well with each other. They all loathe Piers, the toff, and they don't cohere as a team at all. Then, slowly, as they begin their first real gut-dropping bombing raids over Germany they begin to develop as a real crew, depending on each other, becoming more proficient. Charlie's young widowed mum comes to live in a...
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