The Perfect Horse: The Daring U.S. Mission to Rescue the Priceless Stallions Kidnapped by the Nazis
- ISBN-10
- 0345544803
- ISBN-13
- 9780345544803
- Series
- The Perfect Horse
- Category
- Nature
- Pages
- 369
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2016
- Author
- Elizabeth Letts
Description
"Traces the lesser-known efforts of Hitler to build a master race of the finest purebred horses and the heroic achievements of American soldiers to rescue imperiled stolen equines from a hidden Czechoslovakian farm during a 1945 battle between Third Reich and Allied forces,"--NoveList.
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- 2020-02-18
- 274 pages
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- 2019
- 272 pages
- Paperback
- Delacorte Press
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