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Your many requests for scans from books may help explain why publishers do not risk money on unit histories. Books cannot exist unless people are willing to BUY them.

If you keep asking for scans you are asking people (authors) to research the Bari raid without pay - and doing research is expensive - so that you do not have to do the work yourself.

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Beppino,
all the relevant informations about the Bari raids contained in the Radtke and Taghon books are included (quoting the source) in the datailed (15 pages) study written about this subject by Giuseppe Grande in the may 2008 issue of Storia Militare magazine.

ciao

Gianandrea

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A loud amen to what Nick said.

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A DOUBLE AMEN To what Nick says.

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mjbollinger - have your researches into II./KG40 revealed any operations over UK on 3 August 1942?

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I would go one better than John Beaman - and triple it!

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And I disagree. There are two sides of the coin. The one is that the people are not buying books, but on the other hand they are terribly expensive, and in no proportion to royalties. This is just ridiculous, and makes books unavailable for most youngsters, who usually have the most time to spend on aviation history. Another point is that no one with any tiny piece of mind will spend hundreds of euro to get a single page of a book. In the old years the one could borrow a book in a library, but it is not working as good anymore. My recent experience was that borrowing a book unavailable in the library was more expensive than getting the book - I was lucky the book was worth only few bucks, but this is only to show that libraries could be much too expensive for ordinary readers. I do not mention costs, if the one is from a small village.
Just wanted to stir up!

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Dear Members

If a book is not longer for sale and there is no data for a reprint,
Then its to my opinion no problem to send some scans.
Its also possible to say after for instance 10 years it was first release.

buts its only an thought

(sory for my English)

regards

Peter van Gogh

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Franek, of course one does not mind helping fellow researchers/enthusiasts to obtain information - and we all appreciate it when others answer our own calls for help. However, the clue to several of the above responses can be found in the first part of Nick Beale's first sentence - and, at least as far as I am concerned, the rest of what Nick wrote is self-evident.
Bill Norman (www.billnorman.co.uk)

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And let us not forget that there are still these repositories for books called Libraries.