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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 Spanis...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Felton, Mark, 1974- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Da Capo Press, [2018]
Edition:First U.S. edition.
Subjects:
Spanische Reitschule (Vienna, Austria) > History > 20th century.
Podhajsky, Alois.
Reed, Charles Hancock, > 1900-1980.
United States. > Army. > Cavalry Regiment, Mechanized, 2nd > History.
World War, 1939-1945 > Confiscations and contributions > United States.
World War, 1939-1945 > Commando operations > Czech Republic > HostouĊˆ.
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.
HISTORY / Military / World War II.
HISTORY / Europe / Germany.
NATURE / Animals / Horses.
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.