Dorothy Brooke and the Fight to Save Cairo's Lost War Horses【電子書籍】[ Grant Hayter-Menzies ]

＜p＞Born in June 1883 to an aristocratic Scottish family, Dorothy Gibson-Craig was brought up with dogs and horses. In 1926 she married Maj. Gen. Geoffrey Brooke, recipient of the Distinguished Service Order in World War I and a writer on equine culture. She followed her new husband to Cairo, where she discovered thousands of malnourished and suffering former British war horses leading lives of backbreaking toil and misery.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Brought to the Middle East by British forces during the Great War, these ex-cavalry horses had been left behind at the war’s end, abandoned like used equipment too costly to send home. In ＜em＞Dorothy Brooke and the Fight to Save Cairo’s Lost War Horses＜/em＞ Grant Hayter-Menzies chronicles not only the lives and eventual rescue of these noble creatures, who after years of deprivation and suffering found respite in Brooke’s Old War Horse Memorial Hospital, but also the story of the challenges of founding and maintaining an animal-rescue institution on this scale．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る