Overview
Discover a story that defies belief: National Velvet meets Downton Abbey with a splash of Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa's The Leopard. * WINNER OF THE 2020 TELEGRAPH SPORTS BOOK AWARDS BIOGRAPHY OF THE YEAR ** LONGLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR *Czechoslovakia, October 1937. Vast crowds have gathered to watch the Grand Pardubice steeplechase, Europe's most blood-curdling sporting test of manhood. With war looming, the race has a brutal political significance. The Nazis have sent the SS's all-conquering paramilitary horsemen to crush - yet again - the 'subhuman Slavs'. But Lata Brandisova, a silver-haired countess on a little golden mare, has other ideas... 'Heart-stopping reading' Clover Stroud, Daily Telegraph
Discover a story that defies belief: National Velvet meets Downton Abbey with a splash of Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa''s The Leopard.
* WINNER OF THE 2020 TELEGRAPH SPORTS BOOK AWARDS BIOGRAPHY OF THE YEAR *
* LONGLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR *
Czechoslovakia, October 1937. Vast crowds have gathered to watch the Grand Pardubice steeplechase, Europe''s most blood-curdling sporting test of manhood. With war looming, the race has a brutal political significance. The Nazis have sent the SS''s all-conquering paramilitary horsemen to crush - yet again - the ''subhuman Slavs''. But Lata Brandisova, a silver-haired countess on a little golden mare, has other ideas...
''Heart-stopping reading'' Clover Stroud, Daily Telegraph
- | Author: Richard Askwith
- | Publisher: Vintage Publishing
- | Publication Date: Mar 05, 2020
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- | Binding: Paperback / softback
- | ISBN-13: 9781784708405
- | ISBN-10: 1784708402
