Quotes from Stephan Talty

Ninety percent of the population were serfs who could be beaten, killed, transported away from their family, or sold for a gambling debt or as collateral for a loan (a healthy male at the time would fetch between 200 and 500 rubles in the Moscow market; a good-looking young female, several times that).

Lind's 1747 experiment looked at scurvy. Twelve sailors who had the illness were divided into six groups. The accommodations and diet of all the sailors were identical, but each received a different remedy: one group received cider; one got seawater; another, "elixir of vitriol"; the fifth group, two oranges and a lemon; and the sixth, a mix of spices with barley water. It was the first documented clinical trial in medical history.

factory had at its disposal 30,000 Jews, political prisoners

the tensions between settled peoples and transients everywhere...

Patton, an avid horseman, didn't know what to think. "It struck me as rather strange that, in the midst of a world at war, some twenty young and middle-aged men in great physical condition… had spent their entire time teaching a group of horses to wiggle their butts and raise their feet in consonance with certain signals from the heels and reins.

had been the personal mount of King Peter II of Yugoslavia.

The pirates understood what drove men

The horses were, at last, safe from Czech partisans, Nazi science, Russian cooks

Schulze muttered at one point, "Adolf ist kaputt.

Adolf Hitler coveted the Lipizzaner for its white coat and for its perceived racial purity.