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No better friend : one man, one dog, and their extraordinary story of courage and survival in WWII / Robert Weintraub.

Summary:

The extraordinary tale of friendship and survival between a man and a dog in war tells the remarkable story of Royal Air Force technician Frank Williams and Judy, a purebred pointer, who met in an internment camp during WWII. Judy was a fiercely loyal animal who sensed danger and instinctively mistrusted anyone in enemy uniform. Their relationship deepened throughout their imprisonment. The prisoners suffered severe beatings which Judy would interrupt with her barking. The dog became a beacon for the men, who saw in her survival a flicker of hope for their own. Judy was the war's only canine POW, and when she passed away in 1950, she was buried in her Air Force jacket. Williams would never own another dog. Their story -- of an unbreakable bond forged in the worst circumstance -- is one of the great undiscovered sagas of World War II.

Record details

ISBN: 9780316337052
ISBN: 0316337056
Physical Description: xii, 387 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 21 cm
Edition: First Back Bay trade paperback edition.
Publisher: New York : Back Bay Books/Little, Brown and Company, 2016.
Copyright: ©2015

Content descriptions

General Note:	"Originally published in hardcover by Little, Brown and Company, May 2015" --title page verso.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	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.