From the author of The Dog Who Could Fly and the coauthor of Sergeant Rex and It’s All About Treo comes one of the most heartwarming and inspiring tales you will ever hear.
Whether she was scavenging food to help feed the starving inmates of a hellish Japanese POW camp, or by her presence alone bringing inspiration and hope to men, she was cherished and adored by the Allied servicemen who fought to survive alongside her. In the midst of this living hell was a beautiful and regal-looking liver and white English pointer named Judy. Like the one immortalized in the film The Bridge on the River Kwai, this was the other death-railroad building project where POWs slaved under subhuman conditions.
Along with locals as slave labor, the American, Australian, and British POWs were forced to build a 1,200-mile single-track railroad through the most horrifying jungles and treacherous mountain passes. Thrilling and deeply moving, their story will touch the heart of anyone who understands the bond that exists between one man and his dog.After being bombed and shipwrecked repeatedly while serving for several wild and war-torn years as a mascot of the World War II Royal Navy Yangtze river gunboats the Gnat and the Grasshopper, Judy ended up in Japanese prisoner of war camps in North Sumatra. Even then he refused to abandon his duty, waiting patiently beside the runway for his master’s return from every sortie.īy the end of the war Robert and Ant had become very British war heroes, and Ant was justly awarded the Dickin Medal, the ‘Animal VC’. Wounded repeatedly in action, shot, facing crash-landings and parachute bailouts, Ant was eventually grounded due to injury. In the months that followed the pair would save each other’s lives countless times as they fled France and flew together with Bomber Command the puppy – which Robert named Ant – becoming the Squadron mascot along the way. Unable to desert his charge, he hid the dog inside his flying jacket as he made his escape. The other, a lost soul of a different sort – a Czech airman, flying for the French Air Force but soon to be bound for the RAF and the country that he would call home.Īirman Robert Bozdech stumbled across the tiny German Shepherd after being shot down during a daring mission over enemy lines. One was an orphaned puppy, abandoned by his owners as they fled the approaching Nazi forces. But when he prepared to ship out with his Infantry, he had the problem of what to do with Stubby because the U.S.
In the winter of 1939 in the cold snow of no-man’s-land, two loners met and began an extraordinary journey together, one that would bind them for the rest of their lives.
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