Cover of Richard Askwith: Unbreakable

Richard Askwith Unbreakable

Winner of the Telegraph Sports Book Awards Biography of the Year

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U Lužického semináře 10, Malá Strana

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Vintage Publishing

UK

2020

Paperback

432

Standard

304123

978-1-78470-840-5

1-78470-840-2

Horse racing

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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..

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