Ghost Riders: When US and German Soldiers Fought Together to Save the World's Most Beautiful Horses in the Last Days of World War II
by Mark Felton
In the final days of World War II, US and German soldiers united to rescue the world-renowned Lipizzaner horses from the advancing Red Army.
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Ghost Riders recounts a remarkable episode from the closing weeks of World War II in Europe.
American and German troops set aside their conflict to protect a herd of world-famous Lipizzaner horses threatened by advancing Soviet forces.
The operation combined elements of a rescue mission and an unlikely wartime alliance.
Mark Felton draws on archival records to present this little-known chapter of military history.
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