Damien Lewis has written another heartwarming story, this time about the English Pointer Judy. Judy was born in 1939 into a litter of puppies at the English-run Shanghai Dog Kennels. She was adopted by the crew of a passing Royal Navy gunboat, HMS Gnat, patrolling the waters of the Yangtze. When Japan invaded her old enemy China, the gunboat was bombed and crew members were forced to abandon ship. Judy was also rescued from the wreck and after an incredible trek through the thick jungle and across the mountains of Sumatra, the troops and ship's dog were taken as prisoners of war. Reading this story will give you a glimpse of life about survival and how prisoners of war were treated by the Japanese in one of their "hell" concentration camps of Sumatra. I learned a lot from this book. Highly recommended. Jean
