'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title. Smoky the Brave brings to vivid life the danger and excitement of the many missions of World War II's smallest hero. In recognition of her efforts, Smoky was awarded eight battle stars. For myself this is a different way of finding out about the unsung departments and their input into the war efforts. Save up to 80 versus print by going digital with VitalSource. I find the books written by Damien Lewis both interesting and easy to read. But her most heroic feat was running a cable through a seventy-foot pipe no wider than four inches in places to enable critical communication lines to be run across an airbase which had just been seized from the enemy, saving hundreds of ground-crew from being exposed to enemy bombing. Smoky the Brave is written by Damien Lewis and published by Quercus (UK). Smoky's exploits continued when she jumped for the unit in a specially designed parachute and famously joined the aircrews flying daring sorties in the war-torn skies. When Smoky saved Wynne's life by barking a warning of an incoming kamikaze attack, he nicknamed her the 'angel from a foxhole.' A total mystery as to her origins, she was adopted by US Army Air Force Corporal William 'Bill' Wynne, an air-crewman in a photo reconnaissance squadron, becoming an irreplaceable lucky charm for the unit. From acclaimed thriller and war dog writer Damien Lewis comes the story of Smoky, the smallest and arguably bravest dog of World War II, who served as the US military’s first therapy dog Smoky the Brave is the extraordinary, touching, and true story of a heroic dog and her adoptive masters in the jungles of the Pacific War. In February 1944, as Japanese military advances threatened to overwhelm New Guinea, a tiny, four-pound Yorkshire Terrier was discovered hiding in the island's thick jungles.

The extraordinary, touching true story of Smoky, the smallest-and arguably bravest-dog of World War II

Smoky the Brave by Damien Lewis