Bill's Secrets

The Man Who Erased Himself: A Daughter’s Search for Bill’s Secrets

Major Bill Probert. War hero. Gifted linguist. A cultured Englishman with a decorated past and no family of his own. That’s who he presented to the world, and to his wife, a beautiful Oxford graduate he met in post-war Vienna.

After a successful career, Bill retired, reinventing himself as a fly fisherman and farmer in Wales, and later, a lover of the French Pyrenees.

But four months after his death, …