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He had worn the top of the wall of the old stage stand perfectly smooth, standing off the sneaking coyotes ... Shep had held the fort....\" --George Wythe Baylor, Captain (Ret.), Company C, Frontier Battalion, El Paso Herald, February 3, 1900\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Faithful Shep is a fictional account of a loyal dog rescued by nine Texas Rangers, based on a fascinating true story from the history of America's west.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eAuthor's Note\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Faithful Shep was written as a tribute arising from admiration of that great daring that is bred in bravery. I dedicate this book to all who ennoble with loving care the warm-hearted animals who revere them in return. May this story of a stranded, starving dog and the ordinary men who trekked into hostile country to save him, serve as a source of inspiration and resolve.\u003cbr\u003e I express sincere appreciation and deep indebtedness to the host of Texas university researchers, reference librarians, and historical archivists whom I continually pestered for details of setting and geography, personal letters from the period, old newspaper clippings, documents on the Texas Rangers, and other minutia that I cannot even recall at the moment. 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Most ignored or unknown, the historical war fiction of author Don DeNevi brings the truths together in 21 suspenseful stunning chapters clearly and comprehensively written. Vivid details and absorbing minutiae of personality miens and milieu settings allow the reader-participant to vicariously experience Peter's hopes for ultimate survival in the topography of terror, dreams of his Aliandra, dangers of being guillotined, and personal demands on himself for triumphant duty. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAlthough integral and intrinsic for the storyline, fiction is subsequent to facts in time, order, or place, i.e., the pure perfidy of Himmler's Gestapo, Heydrich's SS; the super secret Wehrmacht-Luftwaffe Underground Communications Center at Dozzano, Italy; meeting test pilot Hanna Reitsch, Generaloberst Hans Guderian; SS extermination camp experimenter, Doctor Joseph Mengele; arrest by Secret Police Ernst Kaltenbrunner; visiting Hitler's secret Wolf's Lair in Poland, the Wolfsschanze; traveling to Berlin in Hitler's private train and coach, the Fuhrerwagen; racing through Berlin while bombed and ablaze. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDon DeNevi is the author of more than 60 nonfiction books before pivoting to historical fiction due to his much appreciated research status at the Huntington Library in San Marino-Pasadena, California. 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