Description
Title: Dangerous Days – A Digger’s Great Escape
Author: Brough, Ernest
Condition: Near Mint
Edition: 1st Edition
Publication Date: 2009
ISBN: 9780732287344
Cover: Soft Cover without Dust Jacket – 326 pages
Comments: ′We made our break on the night of April 8, 1944. A few weeks before there had been a mass escape of POWs and the countryside was crawling with Germans. But we didn′t know anything about it, which was just as well”.
After joining up alongside his mates from country Victoria, at 22 Ern Brough fought and was wounded at Tobruk and at El Alamein. But neither he nor his humanity died. One morning during the brutal Allied offensive against Rommel in October 1942, he piggybacked a badly wounded enemy soldier to German lines under heavy fire. Three hours later, the tanks came and Brough was taken prisoner.
On Good Friday, 1944, Brough and two others escaped from an Austrian POW camp and embarked on a desperate flight through Slovenia and Croatia to Bosnia. Travelling by night, armed only with a stolen map and a handmade compass, they were nearly caught countless times, escaping once by pretending to be Germans.
This is the story of that incredible journey, the exploits that earned Brough the Military Medal, and the actions at home that have since made him a local hero.
