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

by Mark Felton

Book Overview

It is April 1945 and the world's most prized horses are about to be slaughtered . . .

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 Lipizzaner's from Vienna's Spanish Riding School, as well as Europe's finest Arabian stallions...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0306825597
• ISBN13: 9780306825590
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: Da Capo Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.5" x 9.3"