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Book Dogs of War

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  • Author : Sheila Keenan
  • Publisher : Graphix
  • Release : 2013
  • ISBN : 9780545128872
  • Pages : 194 pages

Download or read book Dogs of War written by Sheila Keenan and published by Graphix. This book was released on 2013 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three fictional stories, told in graphic novel format, about soldiers in World War I, World War II, and the Vietnam War who were aided by combat dogs. Based on true stories.

Book The Pet War

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  • Author : Allan Woodrow
  • Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
  • Release : 2013-10-29
  • ISBN : 0545513219
  • Pages : 214 pages

Download or read book The Pet War written by Allan Woodrow and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2013-10-29 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE PET WAR is a hilarious story about the timeless battles of dog vs. cat, brother vs. sister, know-it-all vs. know-nothing. Eleven-year-old Otto wants a dog. His twelve-year-old perfect sister, Lexi, wants a cat. Their mother, who works very long hours as a nurse, wants neither. Pets are expensive so who's going to pay for everything? And what happens to the pet when the siblings are at their dad's for the weekend? Otto has an idea. What if he got a job and earned enough money to pay for the dog? Then Lexi has to open her big mouth. She proposes that whichever sibling can raise enough money first will decide which pet they get. Oddly enough, their mom and dad agree. With Otto and Lexi each out to defeat the other, their business plans become more elaborate and involved. As the competition gets fiercer, the stakes get higher, and the battle lines have been drawn, so let the Pet War begin. . . .

Book War Dogs

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  • Author : Rebecca Frankel
  • Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
  • Release : 2015-10-13
  • ISBN : 9781250075079
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book War Dogs written by Rebecca Frankel and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2015-10-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *A New York Times bestseller* A compelling look at the important role that dogs have played in America's most recent military conflicts, replete with the touching stories of individual dogs and their handlers/soldiers Under the cover of night, deep in the desert of Afghanistan, a US Army handler led a Special Forces patrol with his military working dog. Without warning an insurgent popped up, his weapon raised. At the handler's command, the dog charged their attacker. There was the flash of steel, the blur of fur, and the sound of a single shot; the handler watched his dog take a bullet. During the weeks it would take the dog to heal, the handler never left its side. The dog had saved his life. Loyal and courageous, dogs are truly man's best friend on the battlefield. While the soldiers may not always feel comfortable calling the bond they form love, the emotions involved are strong and complicated. In War Dogs, Rebecca Frankel offers a riveting mix of on-the-ground reporting, her own hands-on experiences in the military working dog world, and a look at the science of dogs' special abilities--from their amazing noses and powerful jaws to their enormous sensitivity to the emotions of their human companions. The history of dogs in the US military is long and rich, from the spirit-lifting mascots of the Civil War to the dogs still leading patrols hunting for IEDs today. Frankel not only interviewed handlers who deployed with dogs in wars from Vietnam to Iraq, but top military commanders, K-9 program managers, combat-trained therapists who brought dogs into war zones as part of a preemptive measure to stave off PTSD, and veterinary technicians stationed in Bagram. She makes a passionate case for maintaining a robust war-dog force. In a post-9/11 world rife with terrorist threats, nothing is more effective than a bomb-sniffing dog and his handler. With a compelling cast of humans and animals, this moving book is a must read for all dog lovers--military and otherwise.

Book Dogs at War

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  • Author : Connie Goldsmith
  • Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books (Tm)
  • Release : 2017
  • ISBN : 1512410128
  • Pages : 108 pages

Download or read book Dogs at War written by Connie Goldsmith and published by Twenty-First Century Books (Tm). This book was released on 2017 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While in a war zone, a military working dog (MWD) and its handler live together, eat together, play together, sleep together, and risk their lives for each other every day. The dogs work with handlers in every branch of the US military. They guard military bases, sniff out concealed explosives and other weapons, and alert their handlers to hidden enemies. Learn how the military selects these special dogs and trains them for the many tasks they perform while on duty. Meet Rex, Clipper, Maci, Iva, Ikar, and other MWDs who have served the US military in conflicts around the world.

Book War Dog  Fighting Other People s Wars  The Modern Mercenary in Combat

Download or read book War Dog Fighting Other People s Wars The Modern Mercenary in Combat written by Al J. Venter and published by Lancer Publishers. This book was released on 2006 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book War Dog

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  • Author : Martin Booth
  • Publisher : Puffin
  • Release : 1998
  • ISBN : 9780140378603
  • Pages : 132 pages

Download or read book War Dog written by Martin Booth and published by Puffin. This book was released on 1998 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jet is trained by her master to be a poacher's dog. When her master is sent to prison Jet is taken into the army - it is early 1939 - to be a military dog. Jet survives Dunkirk, the Blitz and the invasion of Italy, and is finally reunited with the poacher as he lies wounded on the battlefield.

Book Soldier Dog

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  • Author : Sam Angus
  • Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
  • Release : 2013-04-16
  • ISBN : 1250037646
  • Pages : 235 pages

Download or read book Soldier Dog written by Sam Angus and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2013-04-16 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With his older brother gone to fight in the Great War, and his father prone to sudden rages, 14-year-old Stanley devotes himself to taking care of the family's greyhound and puppies. Until the morning Stanley wakes to find the puppies gone. Determined to find his brother, Stanley runs away to join an increasingly desperate army. Assigned to the experimental War Dog School, Stanley is given a problematic Great Dane named Bones to train. Against all odds, the pair excels, and Stanley is sent to France. But in Soldier Dog by Sam Angus, the war in France is larger and more brutal than Stanley ever imagined. How can one young boy survive World War I and find his brother with only a dog to help?

Book Dogs of War

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  • Author : Adrian Tchaikovsky
  • Publisher : Dogs of War
  • Release : 2018-06
  • ISBN : 1786693909
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Dogs of War written by Adrian Tchaikovsky and published by Dogs of War. This book was released on 2018-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My name is Rex. I am a good dog. Rex is also seven foot tall at the shoulder, bulletproof, bristling with heavy calibre weaponry and his voice resonates with subsonics expecially designed to instil fear. With Dragon, Honey and Bees, he's part of a Multiform Assault Pack operating in the lawless anarchy of Compeche, Mexico. As a genitically engineered Bioform, Rex is a deadly weapon in a dirty war. But all he wants to be is a Good Dog. And to do that he must do exactly what Master says and kill a lot of enemies. But who, exactlym, ar the enemies? What happens when Master is tried as a war criminal? What rights does the Geneva Convention grant weapons? Do Rex and his fellow Bioforms even have a right to exist? And what happens when Rex slips his leash?

Book War Dogs

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  • Author : Michael G. Lemish
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1999
  • ISBN : 9781574881950
  • Pages : 284 pages

Download or read book War Dogs written by Michael G. Lemish and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An eye-opening look at unsung canine heroes from World War I to the present. Terriers, shepherds, beagles, collies, huskies, and Dobermans are only a few of the breeds that have pulled sleds, searched caves and bunkers, and even parachuted into combat. Michael Lemish has collected true stories and rare photographs that reflect the strong bonds that have formed between war dogs and their masters as they worked together in dangerous situations.

Book War Dog

Download or read book War Dog written by Damien Lewis and published by Sphere. This book was released on 2013-09-26 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. One was an orphaned puppy, abandoned by his owners as they fled the approaching Nazi forces. 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. Airman Robert Bozdech stumbled across the tiny German Shepherd after being shot down during a daring mission over enemy lines. Unable to desert his charge, he hid the dog inside his flying jacket as he made his escape. 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. Wounded repeatedly in action, shot, facing crash-landings and parachute bailouts, Ant was eventually grounded due to injury. Even then he refused to abandon his duty, waiting patiently beside the runway for his master's return from every sortie. By 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'. Thrilling and deeply moving, their story will touch the heart of anyone who understands the bond that exists between one man and his dog.

Book The War on Dogs

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  • Author : Ronald Alexander
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2008
  • ISBN : 9780979958809
  • Pages : 298 pages

Download or read book The War on Dogs written by Ronald Alexander and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A social satire about efforts by the Los Angeles Police Department to control the "menace" of unleashed dogs on Venice Beach, and the response by the beleagured residents to this bureaucratic absurdity as told by the commander of the police force and his gay son.

Book Dog War

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  • Author : Anthony C. Winkler
  • Publisher : Akashic Books
  • Release : 2007-06-01
  • ISBN : 9781933354286
  • Pages : 212 pages

Download or read book Dog War written by Anthony C. Winkler and published by Akashic Books. This book was released on 2007-06-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After Precious Higginson's husband suddenly passes away, she is forced to move in with her son, then her daughter, and on from there, always finding herself in one insulting situation after another.

Book War Dogs

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  • Author : Guy Lawson
  • Publisher : Penguin UK
  • Release : 2016-09-01
  • ISBN : 0241980593
  • Pages : 305 pages

Download or read book War Dogs written by Guy Lawson and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2016-09-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In January 2007, three young stoners from Miami Beach won a $300 million US Government contract to supply ammunition to the Afghanistan military. Instead of fulfilling the order with high-quality arms, they bought cheap Communist-style surplus ammo from Balkan gunrunners. The dudes then secretly repackaged millions of rounds of shoddy Chinese ammunition and shipped it to Kabul - until they were caught by Pentagon investigators. That's the 'official' story. The truth is far more explosive. Originally published as 'The Arms and the Dudes', this is a trip that goes from a dive apartment in Miami Beach to mountain caves in Albania, the corridors of power in Washington, and the frontlines of Iraq and Afghanistan. This is a story you were never meant to read.

Book Vietnam   A Dog s War

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  • Author : Richard Melton
  • Publisher : Primedia E-launch LLC
  • Release :
  • ISBN : 1943093032
  • Pages : 177 pages

Download or read book Vietnam A Dog s War written by Richard Melton and published by Primedia E-launch LLC. This book was released on with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vietnam - A Dog's War is about a group of men who were trained to walk patrol point with a German Shepherd dog. This book is about the dogs and some of the incredible things they did to save lives.

Book The Zero Dog War

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  • Author : Keith Melton
  • Publisher : Etopia Press
  • Release : 2018-05-27
  • ISBN : 1947135848
  • Pages : 298 pages

Download or read book The Zero Dog War written by Keith Melton and published by Etopia Press. This book was released on 2018-05-27 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first bullet is always free. After that, you gotta pay. After accidentally blowing up a client's facility and ruining a cushy city contract in the same day, pyromancer and mercenary captain Andrea Walker is scrambling to save her Zero Dogs. Her team of misfits includes a sexually repressed succubus, a werewolf with a thing for health food, the token vampire, a three-hundred-pound calico cat, and a massive demon who really loves to blow stuff up. Life is never dull for these paranormal guns for hire. With the bankruptcy vultures circling, the government throws her a high-paying, short-term contract even the Zero Dogs can't screw up: destroy a capitalist necromancer bent on dominating the gelatin industry with an all-zombie workforce. The catch? She has to take on Special Forces Captain Jake Sanders, a man who threatens both the existence of the team and Andrea's deliberate avoidance of messy romantic entanglements. As Andrea strains to hold her dysfunctional team together long enough to derail the corporate zombie apocalypse, the prospect of getting her heart run over by a tank tread is the least of her worries. The government never does anything without an ulterior motive. Jake could be the key to success...or just another line item in her expanding list of problems. Oh, and the necromancer begins expanding his commercial enterprise by bussing zombies to rob banks and wreaking general havoc. Good thing Andrea isn't afraid to burn a few bridges to get the job done. Important note: contains rough language, intense action and violence that may involve fire, rampaging zombie hordes, a heroine with an attitude and flamethrower, Special Forces commandos, ninjas, apocalyptic necromancer capitalist machinations, absurd parody and mayhem, self-deluded humor, irreverence, geek humor, mutant cats, low-brow comedy, and banana-kiwi-flavored gelatin

Book War Dogs

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  • Author : Rebecca Frankel
  • Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
  • Release : 2016-09-06
  • ISBN : 125011229X
  • Pages : 209 pages

Download or read book War Dogs written by Rebecca Frankel and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this special edition of War Dogs, adapted specifically for a younger audience, Rebecca Frankel offers a riveting mix of on-the-ground reporting her own hands-on experiences in the military working dog world, and a look at the science of dogs’ special abilities—from their amazing noses and powerful jaws to their enormous sensitivity to the emotions of their human companions. Her narrative gives us insight into the world of dogs in combat and the touching aspect of the relationship between soldiers and their dogs. Frankel explores the long, rich history of dogs in the US military, from the spirit-lifting mascots of the Civil War to the dogs still leading patrols hunting for IEDs today. Frankel not only interviewed handlers who deployed with dogs in wars from Vietnam to Iraq, but top military commanders, K-9 program managers, combat-trained therapists who brought dogs into war zones as part of a preemptive measure to stave off PTSD, and veterinary technicians stationed in Bagram. She makes a passionate case for maintaining a robust war-dog force. In this YA edition, Rebecca Frankel gives further insight into her work as a journalist and how it led her to explore the world of dogs and their handlers. With a compelling cast of humans and animals, this moving book is a must read for all dog lovers.

Book The Dogs of War

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  • Author : Lisa Rogak
  • Publisher : Macmillan
  • Release : 2011-10-25
  • ISBN : 1250008816
  • Pages : 216 pages

Download or read book The Dogs of War written by Lisa Rogak and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-10-25 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An incredible story of the largely unseen but vital role that dogs play in our armed forces, Lisa Rogak's The Dogs of War is a must-read for animal lovers everywhere. Military working dogs gained widespread attention after Cairo participated in the SEAL Team 6 mission that led to Osama bin Laden's death. Before that, few civilians realized that dogs served in combat, let alone that they could parachute from thirty thousand feet up. The Dogs of War reveals the amazing range of jobs that our four-legged soldiers now perform, examines the dogs' training and equipment, and sets the record straight on those rumors of titanium teeth. You'll find heartwarming stories of the deep bond that dogs and their handlers share with each other, and learn how soldiers and civilians can help the cause by fostering puppies or adopting retirees.