- Title:
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Horrie the War Dog: The Story of Australia's Most Famous Dog (MP3)
- Written by:
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Roland Perry
- Read by:
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David Tredinnick
- Format:
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Unabridged MP3 CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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1
- Duration:
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9 hours 11 minutes
- MP3 size:
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383 MB
- Published:
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January 01 2014
- Available Date:
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January 01 2014
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781486207992
- Genres:
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Non-fiction; Australian; Biography; World War II
- Publisher:
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ABC Audio
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Price
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Bestselling author
Perry's work must be rated the first great read about the victories of the Australian cavalry in Arabia.' (for The Australian Light Horse)
Paul Ham
An extraordinarily moving and fascinating story of bravery, mateship and the lengths people will go to to save a friend.
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.