A light beyond the trenches [text(large print)]
Hlad, Alan2022
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April 1916. Throughout Germany, essentials are rationed. Hope, too, is in short supply. Anna Zeller, whose fiancé, Bruno, is fighting on the western front, works as a nurse at an overcrowded hospital in Oldenburg, trying to comfort men broken in body and spirit. But during a visit from Dr. Stalling, the director of the Red Cross Ambulance Dogs Association, she witnesses a rare spark of optimism: as a German shepherd guides a battle-blinded soldier over a garden path, Dr. Stalling is inspired with an idea - to train dogs as companions for sightless veterans. Anna convinces Dr. Stalling to let her work at his new guide dog training school. Some of the dogs that arrive are themselves veterans of war, including Nia, a German shepherd with trench-damaged paws. Anna brings the ailing Nia home and secretly tends and trains her, convinced she may yet be the perfect guide for the right soldier.
Main title:
A light beyond the trenches [text(large print)] / Alan Hlad.
Author:
Hlad, Alan, author
Imprint:
Rearsby : Lamplight Large Print Books, 2022.
Collation:
516 pages (large print)
ISBN:
9781004081448 (pbk. :)
Language:
English
BRN:
2534356