From Tobruk to Borneo : memoirs of an Italian-Aussie volunteer
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From Tobruk to Borneo : memoirs of an Italian-Aussie volunteer
Rosenberg, 2002
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Includes index
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Written not for publication but at the insistent request of the author's youngest daughter, this book is a deeply reflective record of Frank Perversi's four years and nine months in the Second AIF, most of them as a private and then NCO in Intelligence. During that time he saw service in England, Tobruk and EI Alamein, the Middle East, New Guinea and Borneo. Because of the nature of the Field Security Wing's role, Perversi was engaged in more actions than most soldiers. Apart from the range of activities, this book differs from many war memoirs because of the particularly analytical nature of the author's mind. The Australian-born son of Italian migrants, his motivations for enlisting were complex and received with some ambiguity by family and friends. From that decision to volunteer onwards, Perversi examines from sometimes unconventional angles many aspects of life in the services: discipline, boredom, heroism, shared experience. Frank Perversi is now eighty-two years of age.
He retired from his real estate agency nearly twenty years ago, spent the first fifteen months touring Australia by caravan, sold the large home at Diamond Creek in which he and his wife had raised six children and now lives near Bendigo, Victoria. Every year he and his wife migrate north for two or three months. He loves the bush, fishing, reading, most music particularly classics and opera, wining and dining and good conversation. He hates war. Passionately.
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