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A History of the British Cavalry, 1816-1919, Volume 8: The Western Front 1915-1918; Epilogue 1919-1929

Henry Paget

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Description:Lord Anglesey, like so many people, thought that the part played by the British cavalry on the Western Front in the last four years of the First World War was so negligible as not to be worth writing about.On looking into the matter, he very soon realized how wrong he was. This last volume of his monumental chronicle of the mounted arm's final century is intended to put the record straight once and for all.Drawing on material from a large number of sources, many hitherto unpublished, he demonstrates how even many of the most respectable historians have grotesquely misunderstood the cavalry's roles during the grisly period of trench warfare. He shows how, at the worst crisis moments, the cavalry's superior mobility saved the day time and again.Further, the evidence of the marvellous way in which mounted troops performed highly dangerous tasks, for which no other troops were available, during the periods between the great battles, is fully presented here.There are a number of cavalry myths of the most pernicious nature which needed demolishing. The most propagated states that the top generals, led by Douglas Haig (unlike their German counterparts), were all old fashioned, not very clever cavalrymen. The facts, here so conclusively affirmed, destroy that idiotic calumny.Another obnoxious falsehood, endlessly repeated by generations of historians, asserts that the provision of fodder for useless cavalry horses, eating their heads off behind the front, was a major impediment to the transport of more urgently required supplies. No one who looks at the facts, powerfully deployed by Lord Anglesey, can ever again believe that legend.The book ends with an extensive epilogue, showing how, between 1919 and 1939, the mounted arm said goodbye to its horses and, in spite of a minority of romantic diehards, took to mechanization with a surprising degree of enthusiasm.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with A History of the British Cavalry, 1816-1919, Volume 8: The Western Front 1915-1918; Epilogue 1919-1929. To get started finding A History of the British Cavalry, 1816-1919, Volume 8: The Western Front 1915-1918; Epilogue 1919-1929, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Lord Anglesey, like so many people, thought that the part played by the British cavalry on the Western Front in the last four years of the First World War was so negligible as not to be worth writing about.On looking into the matter, he very soon realized how wrong he was. This last volume of his monumental chronicle of the mounted arm's final century is intended to put the record straight once and for all.Drawing on material from a large number of sources, many hitherto unpublished, he demonstrates how even many of the most respectable historians have grotesquely misunderstood the cavalry's roles during the grisly period of trench warfare. He shows how, at the worst crisis moments, the cavalry's superior mobility saved the day time and again.Further, the evidence of the marvellous way in which mounted troops performed highly dangerous tasks, for which no other troops were available, during the periods between the great battles, is fully presented here.There are a number of cavalry myths of the most pernicious nature which needed demolishing. The most propagated states that the top generals, led by Douglas Haig (unlike their German counterparts), were all old fashioned, not very clever cavalrymen. The facts, here so conclusively affirmed, destroy that idiotic calumny.Another obnoxious falsehood, endlessly repeated by generations of historians, asserts that the provision of fodder for useless cavalry horses, eating their heads off behind the front, was a major impediment to the transport of more urgently required supplies. No one who looks at the facts, powerfully deployed by Lord Anglesey, can ever again believe that legend.The book ends with an extensive epilogue, showing how, between 1919 and 1939, the mounted arm said goodbye to its horses and, in spite of a minority of romantic diehards, took to mechanization with a surprising degree of enthusiasm.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with A History of the British Cavalry, 1816-1919, Volume 8: The Western Front 1915-1918; Epilogue 1919-1929. To get started finding A History of the British Cavalry, 1816-1919, Volume 8: The Western Front 1915-1918; Epilogue 1919-1929, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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A History of the British Cavalry, 1816-1919, Volume 8: The Western Front 1915-1918; Epilogue 1919-1929

A History of the British Cavalry, 1816-1919, Volume 8: The Western Front 1915-1918; Epilogue 1919-1929

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