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Ghost riders when US and German soldiers fought together to save the world's most beautiful horses in the last days of World War II

"As the Red Army closes in on the Third Reich, a German colonel sends an American intelligence officer an unusual report about a POW camp soon to be overrun by the Soviets. Locked up, the report says, are over a thousand horses, including the entire herd of white Lipizzaners from Vienna's Spanish Ri...

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Main Author: Felton, Mark, 1974- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Da Capo Press, 2018.
Edition:First U.S. edition.
Subjects:
Podhajsky, Alois.
Reed, Charles Hancock, > 1900-1980.
World War, 1939-1945 > Confiscations and contributions > United States.
World War, 1939-1945 > Commando operations > Czech Republic > Hostouň.
Lipizzaner horse > Austria > History > 20th century.
Arabian horse > Poland > History > 20th century.
World War, 1939-1945 > Confiscations and contributions > Germany.
World War, 1939-1945 > Austria.
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Table of Contents:
  • "Always ready"
  • Colonel 'H'
  • Action this day
  • White gold
  • Operation Sauerkraut
  • Plenipotentiary
  • Duty
  • "Adolf ist kaput!"
  • The road less traveled
  • Enemy situation unknown
  • Liberators and saviors
  • No way out
  • The Alamo
  • All quiet on the Western Front
  • The green light
  • Day of days
  • Operation Cowboy
  • The grand drive.

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