Review: Horse story with happy ending
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 16, 2014
I really loved the book. It was exciting and true. The fact that Patton and Hermann saved the horses wasn't true. The Austrian trainer fibbed in his book that Patton and others with him were responsible for rescuing them. I did not see the movie as Walt Disney used those lies to make the movie The Miracle of the White Horses but did not give the two men who really performed the miracle rescue any credit but isn't that Hollywood all over? I don't think I have ever seen a film about a real person that Hollywood didn't destroy and this was one. The horses were worth the trouble but two men died and they were not even mentioned. Hank Reed and Stewart were two very brave men who risked their own lives to bring out many WW II refugees and horses into Germany. Great book!! I recommend it.