Matthew Darlington Morton

Men on Iron Ponies

The Death and Rebirth of the Modern U.S. Cavalry

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Produktbeschreibung

At the end of World War I, the United States Armydespite its recent experience with trenches, machine guns, barbed wire, airplanes, and even tanksmaintained a horse-mounted cavalry from a bygone era. From the end of World War I until well into World War II, senior leaders remained convinced that traditional cavalry units were...

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cornell University Press
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. November 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 424g
• ISBN-13: 9780875807942
• ISBN-10: 0875807941
• Artikelnr.: 52419955

Autorenporträt

Matthew Darlington Morton is a colonel in the United States Army. He earned his PhD at Florida State University before teaching military history at West Point, instructing at the Marshall Center, and serving as senior research fellow for the Army Chief of Staff's Iraq Study Group. Colonel Morton is currently a member of the United States Army War College faculty at Carlisle Barracks.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Lessons of World War I: Realization to Implementation
Chapter 2: The 1930s
Chapter 3: The Big Maneuvers and War
Chapter 4: War in the Mediterranean
Chapter 5: D-Day to VE-Day: Cavalry Groups across Europe
Chapter 6: The Last Cavalry War
Conclusion
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index