Tommy's Ark: Soldiers and Their Animals in the Great War by Richard Van EmdenBloomsbury | 2011 | ISBN: 1408810077 | 352 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
For soldiers in the Great War, going over the top was a comparatively rare event; much more frequently, they were bored and lonely and missing their families at home. Needing an outlet for their affection, many found it in the animal kingdom. "Tommy's Ark" looks at the war through the eyes of the soldiers who were there, and examines their relationship with a strange and unexpected range of animal life, from horses, dogs and cats to monkeys and birds - even in one case a golden eagle.