Private Bill : in love and war / Barrie Cassidy.

By: Cassidy, Barrie [author.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: Carlton, Victoria : Melbourne University Press, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Description: viii, 192 pages, 8 pages of unnumbered plates : illustrations (some colour), 1 map, portraits ; 24 cmContent type: still image | cartographic image | text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780522866131; 9780522866148Subject(s): Cassidy, William, 1912-2001 | Cassidy, William | Cassidy, William E | World War (1939-1945) | 1939-1945 | Soldiers -- Australia -- Biography | World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisons and prisoners, Australian -- Biography | World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, German -- Biography | Prisoners | World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Australian -- Biography | Prisoners of war -- Australia -- Biography | World War, 1939-1945 -- Greece | World War, 1939-1945 -- Australia -- Biography | World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons -- Biography | Prisoners of war -- Greece -- Biography | Adopted children | Family secrets | Prisoners of war | Prisoners of war -- Austria -- Klagenfurt -- Biography | Family secrets -- Australia | Adopted children -- Australia | Australia | Austria -- Klagenfurt | Greece | Australian | Biography & autobiography (Australia) | World War II (Australia)Genre/Form: Biography. DDC classification: 940.5472436 LOC classification: D805.A2 | C37 2015
Contents:
1. A regrettable decision -- 2. Awkward questions -- 3. The other side of the world -- 4. Operation Mercury -- 5. A prime target -- 6. A distant roar -- 7. Hill 107 -- 8. Precious lives lost -- 9. Prisoners of war -- 10. Trying to be brave -- 11. In an odious place -- 12. The cattle train -- 13. Unbearable reminders -- 14. The not-so-great escape -- 15. Lighter hearts -- 16. Dangerous defiance -- 17. The best camp in Austria -- 18. Badly knocked about -- 19. "Get up you lazy bastards!" -- 20. Time to themselves -- 21. Going with the flow -- 22. Myra's secret -- 23. All that anyone needs.
Summary: Barrie Cassidy's dad Bill survived more than four years as a prisoner of war in World War II. He first saw conflict on Crete in May 1941, during the only large-scale parachute invasion in wartime history. Just four days later, Bill was wounded and eventually captured. Twice he tried to escape his internment - with horrific consequences. He suffered greatly but found courageous support from his fellow prisoners. His new wife Myra and his large family thought he was dead until news of his capture finally reached them. Back home, Myra too was a prisoner of sorts, with her own secrets. Then, fifty years after the war, unhealed wounds unexpectedly opened for Bill and Myra, testing them once again. Private Bill is a classic heart-warming story - as told by their son - of how a loving couple prevailed over the adversities of war to live an extraordinarily ordinary, happy life.
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1. A regrettable decision -- 2. Awkward questions -- 3. The other side of the world -- 4. Operation Mercury -- 5. A prime target -- 6. A distant roar -- 7. Hill 107 -- 8. Precious lives lost -- 9. Prisoners of war -- 10. Trying to be brave -- 11. In an odious place -- 12. The cattle train -- 13. Unbearable reminders -- 14. The not-so-great escape -- 15. Lighter hearts -- 16. Dangerous defiance -- 17. The best camp in Austria -- 18. Badly knocked about -- 19. "Get up you lazy bastards!" -- 20. Time to themselves -- 21. Going with the flow -- 22. Myra's secret -- 23. All that anyone needs.

Barrie Cassidy's dad Bill survived more than four years as a prisoner of war in World War II. He first saw conflict on Crete in May 1941, during the only large-scale parachute invasion in wartime history. Just four days later, Bill was wounded and eventually captured. Twice he tried to escape his internment - with horrific consequences. He suffered greatly but found courageous support from his fellow prisoners. His new wife Myra and his large family thought he was dead until news of his capture finally reached them. Back home, Myra too was a prisoner of sorts, with her own secrets. Then, fifty years after the war, unhealed wounds unexpectedly opened for Bill and Myra, testing them once again. Private Bill is a classic heart-warming story - as told by their son - of how a loving couple prevailed over the adversities of war to live an extraordinarily ordinary, happy life.

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