1. “Unbreakable: The Countess, the Nazis and the World’s Most Dangerous Horse Race” by Richard Askwith.
This non-fiction book is about a woman named Lata who competed in a horse race, back in the 1920's and thirties. The race was over jumps, through plowed fields--a dangerous race.
This non-fiction book is about a woman named Lata who competed in a horse race, back in the 1920's and thirties. The race was over jumps, through plowed fields--a dangerous race.
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Here's a video from the sixties. (The race still goes on every year.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaeSi8lfuPY
She never married. She loved horses.
Will she win the race? She keeps at it, year after year.
(Lata was actually also German. That's her ethnicity. But she was a Czech citizen, and sided with Czechoslavakia.)
Very interesting book, very well-written.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtrG1HqBDpM.