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Author
Series
Horse diaries volume 4
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
139 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
Description
Maestoso Petra, a Lipizzaner stallion, trains to perform in the Spanish Riding School and is hidden away during the German occupation of Austria in World War II. Includes facts about Lipizzaner horses and the world-famous Spanish Riding School.
Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
195 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Description
A baker's son, who dreams of becoming a riding master at Vienna's Spanish Court Riding School, is admitted as an apprentice and achieves his desire under the tutelage of both two-legged and four-legged masters.
Author
Publisher
Da Capo Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
vii, 294 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"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 Spanish Riding School, as well as Europe's finest Arabian stallions--stolen to create an equine "master race." The horses are worth millions and, if the starving...
4) The perfect horse: the daring U.S. mission to rescue the priceless stallions kidnapped by the Nazis
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Formats
Description
"A compelling account for animal lovers and World War II buffs alike, The Perfect Horse tells for the first time the full story of these events. Elizabeth Lettss exhilarating tale of behind-enemy-lines adventure, courage, and sacrifice brings to life one of the most inspiring chapters in the annals of human valor."--Amazon.com.
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