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

by Elizabeth Letts

Book Overview

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the author of The Ride of Her Life and The Eighty-Dollar Champion comes the "winningly readable" (The Christian Science Monitor) true story of the heroic rescue of priceless horses in the closing days of World War II.

"Hard to put down . . . One need not be an equestrian or horse lover in order to appreciate this story."--New York Journal of Books
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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0345544803
• ISBN13: 9780345544803
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.4" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

The fight to save a breed of horse that had been around since Charles VI

The Spanish Riding School in Vinena had withstood many hardships until WW2 came along. This story will walk you through all the hardships that had to be indured to save The most beautiful horse. Very well written.