Fonthill Media has published ‘Umberto Nobile’ by Garth Cameron a book inspired by the adventure and politics during the search for the airship Italia lost in the Arctic in the late 1920s

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A fascinating little corner of aviation history. Previously dramatized in a little book call "The Red Tent" and a somewhat campy Italian film of the same name in the 1960s with Peter Finch as Nobile, and Sean Connery as Roald Amundson.

Yes I remember that: La tenda rossa, the music was scored by Ennio Morricone. The gorgeous Claudia Cardinale was in it too

I thought the movie was pretty darn good. They used the Russian Icebreaker Tesarvich (or something like that) used for the actual incident (a museum ship) still operational for the rescue scenes. Saw I on the History channel some years ago. Nice airplane shots.

Captn Tommy