
Review of Cracker The Best Dog in Vietnam by Richard Paget-Brown
The book is set in Vietnam during the war against the south vietnamese and the north vietnamese. This is a book about the training of the dogs that serve with the soldiers. Some of the main characters are Rick;Cracker;Twenty twenty;Tristie;Cody;and Bruno. Some of the conflicts they have are that they have to struggle to stay in training.They also have to be alert when they are in a mission so that they don't run in to a ambush or a trap in the jungle. They also have to have good team work to stay alive. During the story, the main dog, Cracker, is separated from her soldier in an ambush. She is captured and the story continues with her trying to get back home.
This is a fiction book but the building of the friendship between the dog and her soldier is very interesting. There is so much fighting in the world right now, that even though this story is set in Vietnam, there is a strong connection between what the soldiers in the story go through and what soldiers now go through. It is easy to become attached to the dogs in the book and it is hard to see the bad things happen to them.
I give this book 5 stars because it is well written because the characters are so real. You get so attached to the dogs because you see how important they are to the soldiers. The books shows the devotion of the German Shepherds and their bravery and this has made them my favorite breed of dog. It had a very sad part but I still can't get the story out of my mind. It was a very good well written adventure.