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No Better Friend: One Man, One Dog, and Their Extraordinary Story of Courage and Survival in WWII - Hardcover

Weintraub, Robert

 
9780316337069: No Better Friend: One Man, One Dog, and Their Extraordinary Story of Courage and Survival in WWII
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0316337064 ISBN 13: 9780316337069
Verlag: Little, Brown and Company, 2015

Inhaltsangabe

The extraordinary tale of survival and friendship between a man and a dog in World War II.

Flight technician Frank Williams and Judy, a purebred pointer, met in the most unlikely of places: an internment camp in the Pacific. Judy was a fiercely loyal dog, with a keen sense for who was friend and who was foe, and the pair's relationship deepened throughout their captivity. When the prisoners suffered beatings, Judy would repeatedly risk her life to intervene. She survived bombings and other near-death experiences and became a beacon not only for Frank but for all the men, who saw in her survival a flicker of hope for their own.

Judy's devotion to those she was interned with was matched by their love for her, which helped keep the men and their dog alive despite the ever-present threat of death by disease or the rifles of the guards. At one point, deep in despair and starvation, Frank contemplated killing himself and the dog to prevent either from watching the other die. But both were rescued, and Judy spent the rest of her life with Frank.

She became the war's only official canine POW, and after she died at age fourteen, Frank couldn't bring himself to ever have another dog. Their story -- of an unbreakable bond forged in the worst circumstances -- is one of the great undiscovered sagas of World War II.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Robert Weintraub is a frequent contributor to the New York Times and Slate and the author of the acclaimed books The House That Ruth Built, The Victory Season, and No Better Friend.

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Verlag
Little, Brown and Company
Erscheinungsdatum
2015
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0316337064
ISBN 13 
9780316337069
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
400
Kontakt zum Hersteller
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