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Ernest Brough Ernest Brough i(A121176 works by) (a.k.a. Ernest James Brough)
Born: Established: 1920 Drouin, Drouin area, West Gippsland, Gippsland, Victoria, ;
Gender: Male
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2 7 y separately published work icon Dangerous Days : A Digger's Great Escape Ernest Brough , Pymble : HarperCollins Australia , 2009 Z1563453 2009 single work autobiography war literature

At 19, Ern Brough signed up for the biggest adventure of his life, fighting with the Anzacs at Tobruk and El Alamein.

At 22, he was a prisoner of war.

But Ern and his mates were determined not to spend the rest of the war behind bars. Their aim: to make a break for Italy to rejoin the army, at any cost... (Young Readers' Edition)
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