soldiers mounted a desperate mission behind enemy lines and rescued the horses, including 22 Arabians that were eventually shipped to Kellogg’s former winter ranch in Pomona. “‘We were so tired of death and destruction, we wanted to do something beautiful,’” Letts quoted Reed as saying.Ī small group of U.S. Hank Reed to rescue the horses otherwise, Russian soldiers who were advancing into Germany, might seize them as war bounty. With his country on the brink of defeat, a captured German asked U.S. But the tide of the war eventually turned against the Germans. 9 event at AGRIscapes sponsored by the W.K Kellogg Arabian Horse Center.ĭuring the war, the Nazis had captured Arabian horses with the goal of breeding the perfect war horse. That story is the subject of New York Times’ bestselling author Elizabeth Letts’ latest book, “The Perfect Horse.” Letts spoke about the book to a crowd of around 200 people at a Nov. troops mounted a daring mission to rescue Arabian horses from Nazi Germany – horses that they would later bring to W.K. In the last days of the Second World War, U.S.
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