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Patent, Dorothy Hinshaw

Dogs on Duty: Soldiers' Best Friends on the Battlefield and Beyond

48 pp. | Walker | September, 2012 | Trade ISBN 978-0-8027-2845-6 $16.99 | Library ISBN 978-0-8027-2846-3 $17.89
(2) 4-6 Military Working Dogs have done everything from aiding the wounded during WWI to sniffing out explosives in Iraq and Afghanistan and helping humans cope with posttraumatic stress disorder. Patent's accessible text traces the history of dogs in American wars and then outlines how a puppy becomes an MWD. "Hero Hounds" sidebars tell of individual heroic dogs. Reading list, websites. Glos., ind.
Reviewer: Sam Bloom | Horn Book Magazine Issue: November, 2012

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