| - Book Title: The Cavalry
- Author: James Lawford editor
- ISBN: 067252192x
- Publisher: Bobbs- Merrill
- Year Published: 1976
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- Description: The Bobbs- Merrill company, 1976: first US printing : hardcover in dust jacket: approximately 8.5 x 12.5 inches tall: decorative endpapers: 176 pages including index: Black and white and colour illustrations, drawings diagrams and maps. Synopsis: A compilation of writings on the history and development of the Cavalry from its inception to its demise by contributors including Brigadier Peter Young, military historian and broadcaster; R A Crosbie -Western, lecturer and military historian; Kirk Johnson, American historian and lecturer; Dr D. A. Heathcote, expert on armies and their organisation; Lieutenant-Colonel Alan Shepperd, historian, antiquarian, and author; and David Chandler, deputy head of the Department of War studies at RMA. Sandhurst and authority on the lives of Napoleon and Marlborough. Following a forward by James Lawford, the volume includes- Part One, The horse in war, a pictorial review of the cavalry charger and the mounted soldier, their roles, equipment and training. Part two,The story of the Cavalry, with 15 chapters tracing and assessing the performance of cavalry from the time of the Assyrians to the end of World War I.( Origins, The Huns, Charlemagne and the dawn of chivalry, The Mongols, Decline of the Knight, The 30 years War, The English Civil War, The Age of the Sun King, The Age of Frederick the Great, The Moguls and the Mahrattas, The Napoleonic Wars, The Crimean War, Colonial Cavalry, US Cavalry and the Civil War, The Twilight of The Cavalry.) Condition: very clean and good overall/almost as new
- Condition: Collectable- Very Good
- Dustcover: Yes
- Binding: Hardback
- Type: Used Books
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