peter haining - The Chianti Raiders
The history of the Italian expeditionary Corp at the battle of britain.
I did not read (yet?) this book.
I just found it surfing Internet
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Thx for the information, sounds interesting!
If you read it let us know what you think. 
I have just read this book. It is a historical account of what happened Nov 1940 - Jan 1941.
The Italian expedition is in many ways a sad and tragic story, to satisfy his ego and pride, Mussolini was sending young pilots in obsolete CR42:s against Spits and Hurricanes.
Bombing missions were planned based on info in a pre-war tourist guide…
The first Italian bomber that was shot down over UK had 4 surviving crew members. As Brittish military searched the plane, they found a large piece of cheese, sausages, fruit and bottles of wine.
That’s why the Italians were called “Chianti Raiders”.
The book is more of a history book than aviation book, but may be interesting to some. As aviation book, I cannot rate it very high, as I prefer books written by pilots who participated in the real action. A story written by a historian lacks the nerve.
Here is some good info about all this, should you be interested: