The perfect horse : the daring rescue of horses kidnapped by Hitler
2019
Book
American soldiers, aided by an Austrian colonel who was both an Olympian and a trainer of Lipizzaners, attempt to kidnap horses that had been taken by Nazis "for the glorification of the Third Reich" and smuggle them to safety.
Item Details
ISBN:
- 9780525644767
- 9780525644743
Edition: First Delacorte Press edition.
Description: xvii, 253 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
Other Title: Subtitle appears on dust jacket: Daring rescue of horses kidnapped during World War II
Notes:
- "Adapted for young people."
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-242) and index.
LCCN: 2017060606
Control Number: 2765706
Publisher: New York : Delacorte Press, [2019]Subjects:
- Arabian horse -- Juvenile fiction.
- Arabian horse -- Poland -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction.
- Horses -- Juvenile fiction.
- Lipizzaner horse -- Austria -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction.
- Lipizzaner horse -- Juvenile fiction.
- Podhajsky, Alois -- Juvenile fiction.
- Reed, Charles Hancock, 1900-1980 -- Juvenile fiction.
- Spanische Reitschule (Vienna, Austria) -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction.
- United States. Army. Cavalry Regiment, Mechanized, 2nd -- History -- Juvenile fiction.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Confiscations and contributions -- United States -- Juvenile fiction.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Juvenile fiction.
Genre: Historical fiction.