Ghost Riders
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Ghost Riders

Operation Cowboy, the World War Two Mission to Save the World's Finest Horses

  1. 320 pages
  2. English
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  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Ghost Riders

Operation Cowboy, the World War Two Mission to Save the World's Finest Horses

About this book

April 1945. As Allied
bombs rain down on Europe, a 400-year-old institution looks set to be wiped off
the face of the Earth. The famous white Lipizzaner stallions of the Spanish
Riding School in Vienna, unique and precious animals representing centuries of
careful breeding, are scattered across rural Austria and Czechoslovakia in
areas soon to be swallowed up by Soviet forces – there, doubtless, to become
rations for the Red Army.Their only hope lies with
the Americans: what if a small, highly mobile US task force could be sent deep
behind German lines, through fanatical SS troops, to rescue the horses before
the Soviets arrive. Just five light tanks, a handful of armoured cars and jeeps,
and 300 battle-weary GIs must plunge headlong into the unknown on a rescue
mission that could change the course of European history.So begins
Operation Cowboy, the greatest Second World War story that has never been fully
told. GIs will join forces with surrendered German soldiers and liberated
prisoners of war to save the world's finest horses from fanatical SS and the
ruthless Red Army in an extraordinary battle during the last few days of the
war in Europe.

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Information

Publisher
Icon Books
Year
2018
Print ISBN
9781785784026
eBook ISBN
9781785784033
Topic
History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Contents
  5. American–German Ranks Glossary
  6. A Note on the Text
  7. Prologue
  8. 1: ‘Always Ready’
  9. 2: Colonel ‘H’
  10. 3: Action This Day
  11. 4: White Gold
  12. 5: Operation Sauerkraut
  13. 6: Plenipotentiary
  14. 7: Duty
  15. 8: ‘Adolf ist Kaput!’
  16. 9: The Road Less Traveled
  17. 10: Enemy Situation Unknown
  18. 11: Liberators and Saviors
  19. 12: No Way Out
  20. 13: The Alamo
  21. 14: All Quiet on the Western Front
  22. 15: The Green Light
  23. 16: Day of Days
  24. 17: Operation Cowboy
  25. 18: The Grand Drive
  26. Epilogue
  27. Acknowledgments
  28. Bibliography
  29. Index
  30. Plates
  31. Also by Mark Felton
  32. Copyright