Matthew Darlington Morton

Men on Iron Ponies

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

• Broschiertes Buch

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...

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

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