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Title: Horrie the War Dog
Subtitle: The Story of Australia's Most Famous Dog
Author: Roland Perry
Narrator: David Tredinnick
Format: Unabridged
Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
Language: English
Release date: 01-01-14
Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 10 votes
Genres: History, 20th Century
Publisher's Summary:
In the harsh Libyan desert in the middle of the second world war, Private Jim Moody, a signaller with the First Australian Machine Gun Battalion, found a starving puppy on a sand dune. Moody called the dog Horrie. Much more than a mascot, Horrie's exceptional hearing picked up the whine of enemy aircraft two minutes before his human counterparts and repeatedly saved the lives of the thousand-strong contingent.
When the war was finished and Horrie smuggled back home, quarantine officers pounced and demanded that the dog be put down, prompting a huge public outcry. Was Horrie, the gunner's hero, condemned to die or could Moody devise a scheme to save him. In the finest ANZAC tradition, Horrie the War Dog is a story of intrigue and illusion, and of sacrifice, courage and loyalty.
Critic Reviews:
Perry's work must be rated the first great read about the victories of the Australian cavalry in Arabia.' - Paul Ham, The Australian (for The Australian Light Horse)
