The Perfect Horse: The Daring U.S. Mission to Rescue the Priceless Stallions Kidnapped by The Nazis Audiobook (Free)

NEW YORK Moments BESTSELLER • From the author of The Eighty-Dollar Champ, the remarkable tale of the heroic save of priceless horses in the concluding days of World War II

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In the chaotic last times of the battle, a small troop of battle-weary American soldiers captures a German spy and makes an amazing find-his briefcase is certainly empty but for photos of beautiful white horses which have been stolen and kept on a secret farm behind enemy lines..READING MORE about The Perfect Horse: The Daring U.S. Objective to Save the Priceless Stallions Kidnapped from the Nazis Hitler has stockpiled the world’s finest purebreds to be able to breed an ideal military machine-an equine professional race. But using the starving Russian military closing in, the pets are in imminent danger of getting slaughtered for food.

With only hours to spare, one of the U.S. Army’s last great cavalrymen, Colonel Hank Reed, makes a strong decision-with General George Patton’s blessing-to mount a covert recovery operation. Race against period, Reed’s small but determined force of military, aided by several turncoat Germans, steals across foe lines within a last-ditch effort to save lots of the horses.

Pulling collectively this multistranded story, Elizabeth Letts presents us for an unforgettable cast of people: Alois Podhajsky, director from the famed Spanish Traveling School of Vienna, a previous Olympic medalist who is forced to flee the bomb-ravaged Austrian capital along with his entire stable in tow; Gustav Rau, Hitler’s imperious main of horse breeding, a proponent of eugenics who dreams of genetically engineering the perfect warhorse for Germany; and Tom Stewart, a senator’s boy who makes a daring moonlight ride on a white stallion to secure the farm’s surrender.

A compelling account for animal lovers and World War II buffs as well, The Perfect Horse tells for the very first time the full story of these events. Elizabeth Letts’s exhilarating story of behind-enemy-lines experience, courage, and sacrifice brings alive probably one of the most uplifting chapters in the annals of human valor.

Praise for The Perfect Horse

“Winningly readable . . . Letts captures both personalities and the stakes of this daring mission with such a sharpened ear for episode that the whole second half from the publication reads just like a WWII thriller dreamed up by Alan Furst or Len Deighton. . . . The right director will make a Hollywood traditional out of this fairy tale.”-The Christian Research Monitor

“Letts, a lifelong equestrienne, eloquently brings together the many areas of this unlikely, poignant story underscoring the love and respect of man for horses.”-Kirkus Reviews