# Unbreakable

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- Book: [Unbreakable](https://www.bookquiver.com/richard-askwith/unbreakable) ([Unbreakable.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/richard-askwith/unbreakable.md))
- Authors: [Richard Askwith](https://www.bookquiver.com/richard-askwith)
- Publisher: vintage_digital
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-7355-552-5
- Published: 2019-03-07
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

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