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This book was given to me for a review which follows:Elizabeth Letts approaches the perfect book in her recent effort, The Perfect Horse. In her meticulously researched work, Letts has chronicled the story of Austria's much prized horses during the final year of the World War II conflict in Europe. During the 1936 Olympic Games these horses were noticed by some of the higher ranking members of the Nazi Party, and, like some of Europe's most famous art works, earmarked for acquisition by the Germ
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Warning: If you are considering this book for a horse-loving young person you may want to reconsider it if they are especially sensitive or very young. There is an historical event told in unnecessarily horrific detail that involves the killing of horses in an early chapter. In chapter 7 or 8 there is another, equally gruesome incident. As horrific as they are it is important to remember what was happening at this time at Auschwitz, Dachau, Bergen-Belsen and other concentration camps of the Thir
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I listened to the audio and I think the lack of maps (of course not in audiobook) and relationship of people which appeared in the print edition made the book hard to understand and under appreciated.
Jul 26, 2016
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