The 9/11 Dogs: The heroes who searched for survivors at Ground Zero. Isabel George
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      ‘A dog comes into its own when the chances of survival are against it.’

       New York firefighter

      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

       Copyright

       Epigraph

       Foreword

       Chapter 1: Guiding to Safety

       Chapter 2: Final Expression of Unconditional Love

       Chapter 3: Salty, My Friend and My Hero

       Chapter 4: Comfort for the Dying

       Chapter 5: Chaos in the Ruins

       Chapter 6: The Search for Life

       Chapter 7: ‘Duty. Honour. Country’

       Chapter 8: Healing for the Heroes

       Chapter 9: Brave Dogs Will Not Rest

       Chapter 10: Carrying a Nation’s Hope

       Chapter 11: Canine Therapy

       Chapter 12: Remembering the Loved and the Lost

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      Lower Manhattan, New York, March 2002. I stood on the waterfront just a stone’s throw from Ground Zero. Inadequately dressed for the bite of a New York winter, I clenched the short stack of press packs I had been carrying for the past two hours closer to my chest. That morning, the CNN weather reporter announced that this would be the coldest day of the year so far, yet I had still managed to leave my hotel room without gloves and a scarf. I quickly discovered that a bundle of slim paper folders and my thin English wool coat were no match for a minus-twenty wind chill.

      Trying hard not to visibly shudder, I looked into the crowd ahead for a distraction. There must have been around 300 people gathered to watch this unique medal СКАЧАТЬ