A review by blueyorkie
Blitzcat by Robert Westall

5.0

Lord Gort is an ordinary cat: she has no magic powers and rarely does anything more than what other cats can do. When her master leaves home to fight the Germans in World War II, Lord Gort sets out to track him down. A lonely volunteer in the Observer Corps has befriended the black cat, a maverick sergeant, an old carter, and a young war widow in her travels. Adopted by the rear gunner of a bomber plane, Lord Gort flies on numerous missions over enemy territory. After many successful flights, the fearless feline's luck runs out; she and the rear gunner forcing to bail out over occupied France. With the help of the Spanish and French resistance movements, the man and the cat return to England, where Lord Gort has reunited with her master. Each of these glimpses of men and women in wartime is as perfect as a pearl; Lord Gort's journey is the single black thread on which the precious beads had strung.