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1) The perfect horse: the daring U.S. mission to rescue the priceless stallions kidnapped by the Nazis
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xix, 369 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
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English
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In the chaotic last days of World War II, a small troop of American soldiers captures a German spy and learns that on a secret farm behind enemy lines, Hitler has stockpiled the world's finest purebred horses 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...
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xvii, 253 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
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English
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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.--
Traces Hitler's efforts 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...
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