World War II has been the subject of hundreds, if not thousands, of films produced in the United States alone.

incorporating vivid storytelling, insights into canine wisdom, history, science, and moving tales of personal transformation, A Dog's Gift is a story of miracles bound to be embraced by not only the 60 million Americans who own dogs, but by anyone with a full heart and a loving soul' The book follows the journey of pups bred by the organization from their loving, if rigorous, early training to an emotional event that terry and Kyria have christened 'the bump,' where each individual service dog chooses its new owner through an almost mystical connection that ignites the healing process. Soon after, Terry and Kyria started their service dog organization, paws4people, with the goal of pairing dogs with human beings in need of healing, including traumatized and wounded war veterans and children living with physical, emotional, and intellectual disabilities.In A Dog's Gift, award-winning journalist and author Bob Drury movingly captures the story of a year in the life of paws4people and the broken bodies and souls the organization mends. Terry was astounded by the transformations that unfolded before his eyes.

'A decade ago, former military counterintelligence officer Terry Henry joined his precocious young daughter, Kyria, on a trip to a nursing home in order to allow its residents to play with their family dog, a golden retriever named Riley. Its portraits are indelible.'-Provided by publisherĪ dog's gift : the inspirational story of veterans and children healed by man's best friend We meet Ichiro Sudai, who trained to be a kamikazi Urszula Hoffmann, who taught young children as a member of the Polish resistance Roscoe Brown, a commander in the Tuskegee Airmen, the firstAfrican American military aviators Charin Singh, a farmer from Delhi who spent seven years as a Japanese prisoner of war, returning home only in 1949 and Uli John, who lost an arm while serving in the German Army and ultimately befriended former enemy soldiers as part of a network of veterans-'people who fought in the war and know what war really means.' Veterans is a record of a cataclysmic time in world history and a tribute to the members of an indomitable generation it is also a meditation on memory, human struggle, and the passage of time.

Soldiers, support staff, and resistance members candidly discuss wartime experiences and their lifelong effects. 'Since 2010, Ukrainian-born photographer Sasha Maslov has traveled to more than twenty countries, interviewing participants in World War II and taking richly detailed photographs of them in their homes.

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