No better friend

By Robert Weintraub

Subjects: Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945, Marins, Veterans, Great Britain. Royal Navy, Biography, Warfare and Defence, Mascots, Human-animal relationships, Japanese Prisoners and prisons, Biographies, Prisonniers de guerre, New York Times bestseller, HISTORY, World War II, Domestic animals & pets, World War, 1939-1945, Dogs as pets, PETS, Armed Forces, Prisoners and prisons, Prisonniers et prisons des japonais, Dogs, Utilisation militaire, Essays, World war, 1939-1945, biography, Literary essays, World war, 1939-1945, prisoners and prisons, European history, British & Irish history, Military, War use, History, Military veterans, Relations homme-animal, Prisoners of war, Dogs, biography, Second World War, Great Britain, Sailors, Chiens, Animals, war use, nyt:animals=2015-06-07

Description: "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"