Tom Trumble Tom Trumble i(A137764 works by)
Gender: Male
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1 y separately published work icon Tomorrow We Escape : One Man's WWII Story of Courage and Survival Tom Trumble , Melbourne : Penguin Books , 2014 7418063 2014 single work biography

'On a November morning in 1943, escaped POW Ian Busst comes within a day's march of Allied lines after journeying hundreds of miles on foot through war-torn Italy. The young man is starving and hypothermic, and the German 10th Army stands between him and freedom.

'Years later, 95-year-old Busst – the unlikely survivor – can still recall his wartime experiences in the Royal Australian Engineers in incredible detail, from the sound of a strafing Messerschmitt to the appalling vision of his two mates blown apart by a high-calibre bomb. Busst's odyssey took him through the dark days of the Battle of Britain and fighting in the Western Desert. Captured near Tobruk during a daring night mission ahead of the German advance into Libya, he was sent to the prison camps of Italy and eventually to the dreaded Campo 57. Subjected to appalling conditions, Busst – known as 'Mad Bugger' – became obsessed with one objective: escape.

'This is a thriller set amid the great battlefields and prison camps of the Second World War. Tom Trumble brings to life one man's extraordinary story of high adventure, courage, resilience and, above all, mateship.' (Publication summary)

1 Frequent Flyer : Tom Trumble Tom Trumble , 2011 single work column
— Appears in: The Saturday Age , 26 February 2011; (p. 7) The Sydney Morning Herald , 26-27 February 2011; (p. 7)
1 3 y separately published work icon Unholy Pilgrims Tom Trumble , Camberwell : Penguin , 2011 Z1749583 2011 single work autobiography

'Sometimes the slow road can be the fastest way to sort things out.

'Relationship-challenged, with the résumé of a vagrant, Tom Trumble is at one of life's crossroads. So he takes up an offer to go on a seriously long walk - the ancient Christian pilgrimage of the Camino de Santiago de Compostela, the domain of the devout.

'Despite his good intentions, Tom's route takes him into every bar along the way while crossing paths with the loopy and the wise, the pious and the distinctly ungodly. He finds himself contending with song-happy evangelists, unlikely scholars and enlightened globetrotters, and randy backpackers out to bed every pilgrim they meet. Not to mention his own very restless demons, some of which lead him to confront troubles he thought he'd left at home.

'Unholy Pilgrims is an irreverent and engaging take on figuring out what the hell to do with your life.' (From the publisher's website.)

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