The lost war horses of Cairo : the passion of Dorothy Brooke, animal welfare pioneer
Hayter-Menzies, Grant, 1964-2018
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In 1930 wealthy Scottish socialite Dorothy Brooke followed her new husband to Cairo, where she discovered thousands of suffering former British war horses leading lives of toil and misery. 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 as used equipment too costly to send home. 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.
Main title:
The lost war horses of Cairo : the passion of Dorothy Brooke, animal welfare pioneer / Grant Hayter-Menzies.
Author:
Hayter-Menzies, Grant, 1964-, author
Imprint:
Crows Nest : Allen & Unwin, 2018.
Collation:
199 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781760631420 (hbk)
Dewey class:
636.10832092B BRO636.108
LC class:
HV4716
Local class:
636.108636.10832B/BRO
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2052884