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Soldier Dog (2012)

by Sam Angus(Favorite Author)

4.07 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1447220056 (ISBN13: 9781447220053)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Macmillian Children's Books

review 1: This book made my heart hurt...but in a good way. This is an incredible story, with amazing writing (I hope that one day I can write as beautifully as the author). I love that the events in this book were inspired by a soldier dog named Airedale Jack who dragged himself, shot and half dead, through a war zone to save a large amount of human soldiers by bringing a critical message back to HQ. He died minutes after delivering the message. This book was hard to read at some parts, but I hated to put it down. I love this story, and I have learned a great deal from it, not just about incredible writing, but about the reality, or at least as much as is able to be put on paper, about WWI.
review 2: Set in England and France, "Soldier Dog" tells the story of a young ma... moren who runs away from an abusive father and joins the Queen's service in hopes of finding his brother who is already in France fighting the Hun. Not a student of history, I don't know how accurate the historical facts are, but I was impressed by the author's ability to portray the oppressiveness and sheer terror of the World War I trench warfare. Some of the descriptive writing in the middle might be challenging and a bit tedious for children, but the beginning and ending of Angus' tale are quite exciting. less

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