With some dogs you share a boil in the bag breakfast and maybe a blanket on a cold desert floor. Some you wouldn't leave in charge of your Grandma unless you wanted to find out just how fast the old girl could run. But, if you're very, very lucky there will be the one dog you would lay down your life for - and for me that dog is Buster. Buster, an English springer spaniel who has served his comrades and his country with unstinting devotion, has saved thousands of lives. This is the story of his partnership with RAF Police Sergeant Will Barrow, told by Will himself, describing how each came to save the other's life. It is a relationship that produced some heroic feats--including sniffing out explosive vests that led to the arrests of two suicide bombers--in the dust and desert heat of Afghanistan and beyond. Buster, uniquely, has served five tours of duty in three theatres of war (Bosnia, Iraq, and Afghanistan)--more than any other military dog. He also won the prestigious Crufts Friends for Life Award in 2012, and has gone on to become the official lifetime mascot of the RAF Police, the only dog in history to have been hored in that manner. A best friend in dog's clothing, an RAF dog with his mossy feet firmly on the ground, Buster is truly a dog in a million.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Thorndike Press
ISBN-10
1410485838
ISBN-13
9781410485830
eBay Product ID (ePID)
225308445
Product Key Features
Author
Will Barrow, Isabel George
Format
Sewn,Cloth over Boards, Hardback
Language
English
Topic
Biography: General
Additional Product Features
Author Biography
RAF Police Flight Sergeant MICHAEL WILL BARROW joined the RAF at 18. He then specialised as a Drugs Detection Dog Handler and an Arms and Explosives Search Dog Handler, and has served in the Falkland Islands, Northern Ireland, Bosnia, Afghanistan and Iraq.ISABEL GEORGE is an international bestselling author who writes with a passion and respect for animals in war.
Date of Publication
20/01/2016
Edition Statement
Large Type Edition
Country of Publication
United States
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