Elizabeth Letts

AR: 7.7

The author did her research and wrote a believable story about Frank Baum, his wife Maud, and her family. We also have the parts of the book where Maud comes to the making of the movie based on her husband's book, "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz." at MGM studios and becomes concerned about the young ingenue, Judy Garland. I wanted the book for the movie-making part, but found the other parts interesting as well.

Horse

Not only the famous Lipizzaner stallions from Vienna, but others like the Arabians from Poland, were bought, stolen, or kidnapped by the Nazis who planned to use them to improve German horses. The U.S. 2nd cavalry had just transitioned to mechanized mounts but many still felt close to horses, so it fell to them to rescue the horses as they liberated Europe. Lots of detail.