Full name: The Perfect Horse: the Daring U.S. Mission to Rescue the Priceless Stallions Kidnapped by the Nazis

Author: Elizabeth Letts Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Non Fiction, Animals, War/Military, Historical fiction Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Amazon LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780345544803 9780345544827 0345544803 034554482X

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Eighty-Dollar Champion, the remarkable true story of the valiant rescue of priceless pedigree horses in the last days of World War II. As the Russians closed in on Hitler from the east and the Allies attacked from the west, American soldiers discovered a secret Nazi effort to engineer a master race of the finest purebred horses. With the support of U.S. general George S. Patton, a passionate equestrian, the Americans planned an audacious mission to kidnap these beautiful animals and smuggle them into safe territory - assisted by a daring Austrian colonel who was both a former Olympian and a trainer of the famous Lipizzaner stallions. Similar books: The Good Fight by Stephen E. Ambrose Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare by Giles Milton Wartime by Juliet Gardiner Tears in the Darkness by Michael Norman Escape From Davao by John D. Lukacs The Storm of War by Andrew Roberts Forgotten Voices of the Second World War by Max Arthur Surviving the Sword by Brian MacArthur 1939 by Richard Overy Year Zero by Ian Buruma The Greatest Generation Speaks by Tom Brokaw The People's War by Angus Calder Moral Combat by Michael Burleigh Navajo Weapon by Sally McClain Station X by Michael Smith The Eighty-Dollar Champion by Elizabeth Letts In Harm's Way by Doug Stanton The Norman Conquest by Marc Morris The Great Halifax Explosion by John U. Bacon We Will Not Be Silent by Russell Freedman