P.P. (personale protetto) diario di prigionia di un medico militare in Australia

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Title: P.P. (personale protetto) diario di prigionia di un medico militare in Australia
Subject: Italian diaries; Prisoners of war; Prisoner-of-war camps
Category: 4. World War II
Author: Andrea Napoleone
Keywords: Security; love
Current holder: ADN Archivio Diaristico Nazionale
Period of reference: 1943 – 1947
Link: https://catalogo.archiviodiari.it/diari?topic=149&tag=Fidanzati&page=5
Item number: DG/05
Access rights: Request at location
Place: Bonegilla Migrant Centre
Language: Italian
Description from source: Andrea Napoleone was a captain doctor prisoner of war in India for two years. In 1943 he was transferred to Australia for detention in different camps for another four years. He writes this epistolary diary to his girlfriend who awaits him with confidence in Italy. In the diary Napoleone writes his personal reflections on his experience as a POW. He expresses his emotions, from love for her fiancée to loneliness and frustration for this life in captivity. Napoleone was born in Barano d'Ischia (NA) in Italy in 1909 and died in 2005. Places mentioned in the diary and places of imprisonmen: Africa, Australia, Bairagarh, Bonegilla, Cowra, Ethiopia, India, Murchison, Myrtleford, Seymour, Somalia, Wakool
Physical format: Diaries
Bibliographic citation: Erika Lorenzon, Lo sguardo lontano - L'italia della Seconda guerra mondiale nella memoria dei prigionieri di guerra (Venice: Edizioni Ca' Foscari, 2018).
Date accessed: June 4, 2022