Read Sunday Times bestseller Pen Farthing's powerful memoir of the 2021 Afghanistan Evacuation, whose story captured global headlines.'Pen Farthing is still angry. It's understandable.' -- Private Eye'Operation Ark was always about people and animals. Pen Farthing's actions were nothing short of heroic.' -- Ricky Gervais'Pen Farthing is a man who has the Commando spirit writ through him: he...

'Thick with rolls of gleaming new wire, the obstacle was designed to prevent a suicide bomber driving into the compound's thick mud walls. Today, however, it had only succeeded in stopping a terrified-looking small white dog. I knew that the Taliban could be hiding in any one of these buildings, just waiting for one of us. But I knew I couldn't just walk away.'In a remote outpost of Now Zad, in Helmand province, Pen Farthing's tour of duty will change his life fore...

'Nowzad was a gentle giant when it came to taking treats. He never, ever snatched. To me it was just further evidence that, deep inside, there was a great dog struggling to find his way out'When Pen Farthing brings stray dogs Nowzad and Tali back from his tour of Afghanistan, little does he know what he has begun.Suddenly he has four dogs to look after - two of whom have never been house-trained. And soon he is inundated with requests from other Marines and soldier...

'When people gave up on Wylie, Wylie refused to give up on people.'For a street dog born in the city of Kandahar, Afghanistan, to be crowned top dog at Scruffts, a competition for crossbreeds held during Crufts, the largest dog show on earth, is nothing short of a miracle. But for Wylie, the gentle, cropped eared ball of fur, miracles seemed to happen quite regularly.Beaten and abused while being used as a bait dog, Wylie suffered terrible injuries that nee...

"Kindness flourishes in an Afghan war zone, where British Royal Marine Farthing begins rescuing the starving strays nosing their way onto his compound...Readers will come to know and love each mutt and to admire Farthing, whose caring doesn't end when his tour does." — PeopleThe remarkable true story of one man's fight to save the stray dogs of Afghanistan.In the remote outpost of Now Zad, Afghanistan, Pen Farthing and his t...

Operation Ark was always about people and animals. Pen Farthing’s actions were nothing short of heroic. - Ricky Gervais67 People. 171 Animals. Getting out was only half the battle.August 2021. The Taliban invaded Kabul.The British Government was Missing in Action.The evacuation was disastrous, shambolic and deadly.Pen Farthing refused to abandon his charity’s staff or rescue animals. Operation Ark was born.He...

One Dog at a TimeBy Pen Farthing · Narrated by Kerry Hutchinson - with an introduction read by the author.'Thick with rolls of gleaming, new wire, the obstacle was designed to prevent a suicide bomber driving into the compound’s thick mud walls. Today, however, it had only succeeded in stopping a small, white, terrified-looking dog. I knew that the Taliban could be hiding in any one of these buildings just waiting for one of us. But I kn...

On the streets of Paris one day in July 1918, an American doughboy, Sgt. Jimmy Donovan, befriended a stray dog that he named Rags. No longer an unwanted street mutt, Rags became the mascot to the entire First Division of the American Expeditionary Force and a friend to the American troops who had crossed the Atlantic to fight. Rags was more than a scruffy face and a wagging tail, however. The little terrier mix was with the division at the crucial battle of Soissons, at the Saint-Mihiel of...