For much of the second world war, death rained from the sky. Germany's Luftwaffe bombed England's cities, while the Royal Air Force, to be joined by the US Air Force, obliterated Germany's urban centres. Bomber Command, under the direction of Air Marshall Arthur 'Bomber' Harris, waged total war that didn't distinguish between military and civilian targets. The bombing of Dresden on February 13, 1945, triggered a firestorm that killed at least 35,000 civilians in a few hours, an attack often compared with Hiroshima and Nagasaki. What was happening on the ground, however, was largely kept from the bomber crews waging this new form of warfare that exacted heavy casualties: 55,000 airmen killed, 10,000 taken prisoner. James Taylor and Mark Davidson interviewed for Bomber Crew about 300 veterans of Bomber Command, who tell of the largely unrecognised war in which they were strafed by fighters, shot at by flak batteries, and, more terrifyingly, risked collision with other bombers or were knocked from the sky by bombs dropped from aircraft above. Taylor and Davidson also delve into the history of Bomber Command and powers that guided its hand.