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Author:
Felton, Mark, 1974- author.
Title:
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 / Mark Felton.
Publisher:
Da Capo Press,
Copyright Date:
2018
Description:
vii, 294 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subject:
Spanische Reitschule (Vienna, Austria)--History--20th century.
Podhajsky, Alois.
Reed, Charles Hancock,--1900-1980.
United States.--Cavalry Regiment, Mechanized, 2nd--Cavalry Regiment, Mechanized, 2nd--History.
World War, 1939-1945--Confiscations and contributions--United States.
World War, 1939-1945--Commando operations--Hostouň.--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.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-284) and index.
Contents:
"Always ready" -- Colonel "H" -- Action this day -- White gold -- Operation Sauerkraut -- Plenipotentiary -- Duty -- "Adolf ist kaput!" -- 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.
Summary:
"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 Riding School, as well as Europe's finest Arabian stallions--stolen to create an equine "master race." The horses are worth millions and, if the starving Red Army reaches the stables first, they will kill the horses for rations. The Americans, under the command of General George Patton, whose love of horses was legendary, decide to help the Germans save the majestic creatures. "--Jacket
ISBN:
0306825597
9780306825590
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1023491596
Locations:
ZBPE245 -- Norelius Community Library (Denison)
BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)
FXPH314 -- Carnegie-Stout Public Library (Dubuque)
AXPF626 -- Oskaloosa Public Library (Oskaloosa)
TXPC862 -- Traer Public Library (Traer)
CXPC586 -- Keck Memorial Library (Wapello)
MUPB553 -- Whittemore Public Library (Whittemore)

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