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1 From Tobruk to Clare: The Experiences of the Italian Prisoner of War Luigi Bortolotti 1941-1946 Desmond O'Connor , 2003 single work criticism
— Appears in: FULGOR , December vol. 1 no. 3 2003; 'The paper explores the personal account of an Italian prisoner of war, Luigi Bortolotti (1916-1980), who has left a 300-page diary manuscript that relates his experiences from the time of his capture in Tobruk in 1941 until he was repatriated to Italy in 1946. After being placed in camps in Ismailia and Suez, Bortolotti was shipped to Australia where he spent nearly three years in the POW camp at Hay (New South Wales). Early in 1944 he was sent to work on a farm in Clare, South Australia, a country town to which he would return to settle as a migrant in 1948. The paper follows Bortolotti's daily, often mundane account of his life as a POW in the context of the events of the time and highlights the mental and physical stress and sense of hopelessness that he and many other Italian POWs felt in the Hay camp during their years of confinement. It re-evaluates what has too easily been labeled the "fair treatment" of Italian POWs in Australia and a wartime experience that has been called "not a bad thing".' -- Author's abstract
1 y separately published work icon FULGOR Flinders University Languages Group Online Review Desmond O'Connor (editor), Eric Bouvet (editor), 2002 Adelaide : Flinders University , Z1517435 2002 periodical (5 issues)

FULGOR, Flinders University Languages Group Online Review, is a freely accessible, fully refereed international e-journal, normally published twice a year by the Department of Languages, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia.

The journal aims to publish high-quality academic work produced by scholars associated with tertiary institutions who are conducting research in the areas of French, Italian, Modern Greek and Spanish Studies, Applied Linguistics, Language Education, and Migration Studies.

1 Australia : The Italian Connection Desmond O'Connor , 1991 single work review
— Appears in: The CRNLE Reviews Journal , no. 1 1991; (p. 21-23)
— Review of Australia and Italy : Contributions to Intellectual Life 1989 anthology criticism
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