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The Perfect Horse : the daring U.S. mission to rescue the priceless stallions kidnapped by the Nazis / Elizabeth Letts.

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In the chaotic last days of the war, a small troop of battle-weary American soldiers captures a German spy and makes an astonishing find: his briefcase is empty but for photos of beautiful white horses that have been stolen and kept on a secret farm behind enemy lines. Hitler has stockpiled the world's finest purebreds in order to breed the perfect military machine: an equine master race. But with the starving Russian army closing in, the animals are in imminent danger of being slaughtered for food. With only hours to spare, one of the U.S. Army's last great cavalrymen, Colonel Hank Reed, makes a bold decision with General George Patton's blessing to mount a covert rescue operation. Racing against time, Reed's small but determined force of soldiers, aided by several turncoat Germans, steals across enemy lines in a last-ditch effort to save the horses.

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ISBN: 9780345544803 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780345544827 (paperback : alk. paper)
Physical Description: xix, 369 pages : illustrations, map ; 20 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : Ballantine Books, [2016]

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Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-350) and index.

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Podhajsky, Alois.
Reed, Charles Hancock, 1900-1980.
United States. Army. Cavalry Regiment, Mechanized, 2nd.
Spanish Riding School (Vienna, Austria)
World War, 1939-1945.
Lipizzaner horse.
Arabian horse.
Spies.
Animal rescue.
Austria.
Germany.
Poland.

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