In my opinion, for what it is worth, the Wilson book is a far better read. His “Men of Air” is also great. As to the best BC book, probably Nuremburg Raid by Middlebrook?;)

I’ve read both ‘Bomber Boys’ too and the Wilson book gets my vote too…
just the front cover with the photo of the young aircrew and the subtitle ‘the doomed youth of bomber command’ is painfully poignant in itself.

It paints a broad picture at strategic level and then illustrates each phase of Bomber Command’s war with the stories of individual crews…

‘Bomber Boys’ the first isn’t bad at all but cherry picks individual stories and is thus less concerned with placing them in the overall context of the conflict….

just my two cents worth…