A thrilling account of one of the strangest and most daring military
operations in history.
In the final days of World War II, with the ravenous Red Army marching
across Czechoslovakia, a wily band of American soldiers did the
unexpected: They teamed up with the Nazis and went behind enemy lines to
save the world's rarest horses from imminent extinction at the hands of
the Russians - including the exquisite white Lipizzaner, whose
bloodlines date back to Genghis Khan. Based on personal interviews and
new archival research, New York Times bestselling author Stephan Talty
recreates in vivid detail the exhilarating rescue mission, led by
unlikely heroes who just "wanted to do something beautiful."