Elizabeth Letts book, The Perfect Horse, is a page turner. This is just one segment of the remarkable story of how the Lipizzaner horse was rescued during World War II. When his group arrived along the road just at the city’s outskirts he came upon the charred corpses of seventeen of his beloved stallions and began to weep.” ” Kristalovich, traveling with the mares and foals, was half a day behind. Men and animals fled in all directions, but the hellfire rained down everywhere-there was nowhere to run. People lost their bearings, and the horses, too, wheeling as they pawed and reared, the whites of their eyes flashing and picking up the orange and crimson colors of the bone-shattering explosions. The stallions panicked, rearing and lashing out, crazily trying to escape the cacophony and intense heat. As flames engulfed the city, the horizon turned fiery orange-white and a thick cloud of black smoke obscured the sky. The stallions squealed in panic, but soon the high-pitched sounds were drowned out by the unceasing roar of planes overhead……Unwittingly the men had ridden the horses directly into one of the biggest air attacks of the war: the Allied bombing of Dresden….The entire bowl of the sky turned violent crimson orange. A few moments later, a crushing roar rumbled above. “Green tracers, called Christmas trees, lit up the sky over the old city.
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