Book description
An extraordinary tale of the remarkable bond between one man and his dog during the Second World War.
The two friends huddled close together, each of them the other's saving grace in a world gone to hell . . . There was nothing terribly unusual about POWs suffering horribly at…
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1 author picked No Better Friend as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
It’s no secret that uniformed men and women welcome canine friends in wartime. In our book, Bill Husselman and Mary Brandon wrote home regularly about dogs they or their mates adopted in France, Italy, and elsewhere.
That said, Robert Weintraub’s book is no ordinary tale about bonding between humans and animals. Weintraub painstakingly recounts how an RAF radar technician named Frank and a purebred English pointer named Judy survived separate hells at the start of World War II, only to be imprisoned in an internment camp in the Pacific. There, despite being close to starvation, they used their wits to…
From Barbara and Ellen's list on World War II stories gleaned from letters, diaries, and personal remembrances.
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