Title: Soldier bear
Description: An orphaned Syrian brown bear cub is adopted by Polish soldiers during World War II and serves for five years as their mischievous mascot in Iran and Italy.  Based on a true story.
Subjects: Bears, Juvenile fiction, Fiction, Brown bear, World War, 1939-1945, Soldiers, Mascots, History, Wojtek (Bear), Children's fiction, World war, 1939-1945, fiction, Poland, fiction, Bears, fiction, Soldiers, fiction, Iran, fiction, Italy, history, fiction
Places: Iran, Poland, Italy
Time periods: 1914-1945, Pahlavi dynasty, 1925-1979, 1918-1945