Courage Alone - revised

[stably]

good news, i lost my old edition, now can uy a new one.

[pstrany]

I just got a notification from Amazon.com saying the book would not be available until December.

Paul

[Håkan]

This is very strange, I received an email from Amazon on 6 October that the book has been shiped to me, i.e. I'll probably have it during next week.

Best wishes/Håkan

[Håkan]

Hello,

I received my copy yesterday.
This is revised and updated version of Chris Dunning's since long time sold-out "Courage Alone" from 1998. The new edition includes many new images but so far I haven't found any new information (I haven't gone through all unit histories yet). The book covers every Gruppo and Autonomo Squadriglia histories, areas of operations, allocations, OOBs, aircraft types etc. Two new things in the book are two appendices with extracts from the technical manuals for the Ca.310 and CR.32 (not adding very much). It also list the Regia Aeronautica aces (which still unfortunately includes the error that Franco Lucchini (http://surfcity.kund.dalnet.se/italy_lucchini.htm) claimed five victories in Spain - in fact he only claimed an I-15 as a solo victory on 21/02/38. It is still the best reference source on the Regia Aeronautica available in English but if you have the first edition, there is no need to buy this version (if you're not like me, who wants to buy everything available on Italian aviation, that is...). However, if you don't have the previous edition and is the slightest interested in the Regia Aeronautica, this is definitively a must! Highly recommended!

Best wishes/Håkan

[Gianandrea Bussi]

In the first edition the unit history of 155° Gruppo CT was full of mistakes: may you check if the text of this unit history is the same in this "revised" edition?

The structure of the fighter Stormo at pag. 13 was wrong too (the book covers the period 1940-43 but the structure reported in the book was that one adopted in january 1944): may you check if this mistake has been corrected?

Thank you

Gianandrea

[Håkan]

Hello Gianandrea,

It's the same text for 155o Gruppo in the "revised" edition as in the old, i.e. nothing changed.
Same with the fighter Stormo structure - i.e. the error has not been corrected.

This only supports my previous opinion - if you have the old version there is no need to buy the new.

Best wishes/Håkan

[Gianandrea Bussi]

Hello Hakan
thank you for the check: I won't buy the new "revised" edition...

Best regards

Gianandrea