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

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