He initially left the pup behind when he and Pierre prepared to get through the no-man's land, but found he couldn't do it. In an abandoned farmhouse between those lines, while trying to tend to his injured pilot, Robert discovered an abandoned German Shepherd puppy. But in the winter of 1939, on board a Potez 63 fighter-bomber, gunner Robert and his French pilot, Pierre, were shot down by German ground fire from the ground, their plane crashing in a no-man's land between the French Maginot and German Siegfried lines. He was practically seething with patriotic rage, wanting to get up in the air and shoot down the Nazis so he could have his country back. In 1938, escaping his beloved, native Czechoslovakia before the Nazis rolled in and seized control, Robert Bozdech joined the French Air Force. Yet that's the exact vibe that author and burgeoning war dog historian Damien Lewis gives off in The Dog Who Could Fly, and it is true together they have an incredible, heroic adventure. It feels uncouth to exclaim "What an adventure!" about the close relationship between a Czech airman and his newfound German Shepherd in the thick of World War II, one of the darkest times in the history of the world. Set against the backdrop of war, The Dog Who Could Fly is a story of the unshakeable bond between a man and his best friend - a dog.
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