Judy and Smoky the Brave: A Dog in a Million: From Runaway Puppy to the World’s Most Heroic Dog by Damien Lewis – Judy: The impossibly moving story of how Judy, World War Two’s only animal POW, brought hope in the midst of hell. Judy, a beautiful liver and white English pointer, and the only animal POW of WWII, truly was a dog in a million, cherished and adored by the British, Australian, American and other Allied servicemen who fought to survive alongside her.
- Book 1: Judy: A Dog in a Million: The Heartwarming Story of WWII’s Only Animal Prisoner of War
- Book 2: Smoky the Brave: How a Feisty Yorkshire Terrier Mascot Became a Comrade-in-Arms during World War II
Judy’s unique combination of courage, kindness and fun repaid that honour a thousand times over and her incredible story is one of the most heartwarming and inspiring tales you will ever read. Smoky the Brave: The World’s Smallest Dog with the World’s Biggest Heart 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 perhaps her most heroic exploit of all, Smoky ran a cable through a seventy-foot pipe no wider in places than four inches, to enable telephone lines to be run across the recently occupied airbase of Luzon. Her efforts saved hundreds of ground-crew from being exposed to enemy bombing, preventing injury and loss of life.
Amongst her many other awards, she was given the PDSA’s Certificate for Animal Bravery or Devotion in 2011, a relatively new class of PDSA award.
