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He thought your dog was immortal. Therefore starts Leslie Orlean’s significant, incredibly moving account of Rin Tin Tin’s trip from puppy to worldwide image and superstar. Orlean, an employee writer at The Brand New Yorker who hasbeen praised as “a nationwide treasure” from The Washington Post, spent almost 10 years confirming and studying her many fascinating guide up to now: the tale of the puppy who was created in 1918 and never perished. It starts on the battlefield in France during World-War I, whenever a young American soldier, Lee Duncan, found a baby German shepherd in the ruins of the bombed-out puppy crate.