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Weintraub, Robert, author.
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Judy (Dog), 1936-1950.
Great Britain. Royal Navy -- Mascots.
Dogs -- War use.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Japanese.
Prisoners of war -- Great Britain.
Prisoners of war -- Pacific Area.
Sailors -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Human-animal relationships.
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No better friend [large type] : one man, one dog, and their extraordinary story of courage and survival in WWII / Robert Weintraub.
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Weintraub, Robert, author.
Farmington Hills, Michigan : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning, 2015.
Subjects
Judy (Dog), 1936-1950.
Great Britain. Royal Navy -- Mascots.
Dogs -- War use.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Japanese.
Prisoners of war -- Great Britain.
Prisoners of war -- Pacific Area.
Sailors -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Human-animal relationships.
ISBN:
9781410482693 (large print : hardcover)
1410482693 (large print : hardcover)
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Thorndike Press large print popular and narrative nonfiction.
Description:
691 pages (large print) : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
Edition:
Large print edition.
Contents:
Mascot -- Dog overboard -- Shore leave -- War -- Amour -- War dogs -- Frank -- Force Z -- Flight -- Day of destruction : February 14, 1942 -- Posic -- Pompong -- Sumatra -- Padang -- Imprisoned -- Gloegoer -- POW #81-A -- Subterfuge -- Hell ship -- Reunion -- Pakan Baroe -- Pig Face and King Kong -- Railway of death -- Freedom -- Hero -- Africa.
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Flight technician Frank Williams and Judy, a purebred pointer, met in the most unlikely of places: a World War II 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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Aina Haina Public Library
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