Horrie the War Dog

Author(s): Roland Perry

Military History

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.

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Roland Perry has written 28 books, including Bill the Bastard, Bradman's Invincibles, The Changi Brownlow, The Australian Light Horse and Monash: The Outsider Who Won a War.

General Fields

  • : 9781743317990
  • : Allen & Unwin
  • : Allen & Unwin
  • : 0.374
  • : August 2013
  • : 208mm X 138mm
  • : Australia
  • : November 2014
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Roland Perry
  • : Paperback
  • : 1113
  • : English
  • : 994.00
  • : 362
  • : Illustrations, ports.