{"id":4086,"date":"2013-04-24T11:49:08","date_gmt":"2013-04-24T11:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soundslikewish.wordpress.com\/?p=4086"},"modified":"2018-08-27T19:56:10","modified_gmt":"2018-08-27T09:56:10","slug":"54-great-opening-lines-43","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/?p=4086","title":{"rendered":"54 great opening lines: 43"},"content":{"rendered":"

Henry Holden decided to get an Italian prisoner-of-war after he had seen several at work on Esmond’s farm.<\/p>\n

The Enthusiastic Prisoner<\/em>, E. O. Schlunke<\/p>\n

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Another short story by Schlunke, the author of The Irling<\/em><\/a> which I wrote about a couple of days ago.\u00a0 This line, beginning with a very Australian name, Henry Holden, caught my attention particularly when I saw it was about an Italian P.O.W.\u00a0 It triggered thoughts of some photos from my father’s war album of Italians taken prisoner by Australian soldiers.\u00a0 Many of the P.O.W.s were shipped to Australia and placed in camps, and their services were offered to local farmers who greatly benefited from the Italians’ excellent knowledge of food production.\u00a0 There is a photo (above) of a stream of Italians heading towards their captor’s camp.\u00a0 There’s also this image of a suave bunch posing for the camera:<\/p>\n

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Italian soldiers, North Africa, c1941<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Henry Holden decided to get an Italian prisoner-of-war after he had seen several at work on Esmond’s farm. The Enthusiastic Prisoner, E. O. Schlunke ***** Another short story by Schlunke, the author of The Irling which I wrote about a couple of days ago.\u00a0 This line, beginning with a very Australian name, Henry Holden, caught … <\/p>\n

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