World War II Close Up Books

Summary: In the last months of World War II, bombs fall on Vienna, and the dancing white Lipizzaner stallions of the Spanish Riding School tremble in their stables. Their director, the dedicated horseman Alois Podhajsky, will do everything he can to protect them. Deborah Hopkinson tells the true story of how he and a group of daring American soldiers joined forces to save the horses.