Smoky the brave [text(large print)] : the world's smallest dog, the world's biggest heart
Lewis, Damien2019
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In February 1944, as Japanese military advances threatened to engulf Australasia, a tiny, four-pound Yorkshire terrier was discovered hiding in a Japanese shell scrape amidst the thick jungles of Papua New Guinea. The GIs who discovered her presumed she had been some kind of Japanese army mascot, but it soon turned out that she understood neither commands rendered in Japanese nor English. A mystery, she was adopted by Corporal William 'Bill' Wynne, an air-crewman with the US 5th Air Force's 26th Photo Reconnaissance Squadron. 'Smoky the Brave' is the extraordinary, touching and true story of a heroic dog and her adoptive masters in the jungles of the Pacific War.
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Rearsby : Clipper Large Print Books, 2019.
Collation:
368 pages (large print) : illustrations (black and white)
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Standard print edition originally published: London: Quercus, 2018.
ISBN:
9781528854276 (pbk)
Dewey class:
940.5'426'0929940.54260929
Language:
English
Subject:
Smoky (Dog)Dogs -- War use -- United States -- History -- 20th centuryWorld War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Pacific AreaAnimal heroes -- United States -- History -- 20th centuryUnited States. Air Force. Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron, 26th -- MascotsWynne, William A., 1922-Human-animal relationshipsLarge type books
BRN:
2726223
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