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Author : George Francis Brimlow
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Cavalryman Out of the West written by George Francis Brimlow and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jeffry D. Wert
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743278240
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (432 download)
Download or read book Cavalryman of the Lost Cause written by Jeffry D. Wert and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-09-22 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in paperback, this major biography of J.E.B. Stuart—the first in two decades—uses newly available documents to draw the fullest, most accurate portrait of the legendary Confederate cavalry commander ever published. • Major figure of American history: James Ewell Brown Stuart was the South’s most successful and most colorful cavalry commander during the Civil War. Like many who die young (Stuart was thirty-one when he succumbed to combat wounds), he has been romanticized and popular- ized. One of the best-known figures of the Civil War, J.E.B. Stuart is almost as important a figure in the Confederate pantheon as Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson. • Most comprehensive biography to date: Cavalryman of the Lost Cause is based on manuscripts and unpublished letters as well as the latest Civil War scholarship. Stuart’s childhood and family are scrutinized, as is his service in Kansas and on the frontier before the Civil War. The research in this biography makes it the authoritative work.
Author : Hamilton Hawkins Howze
Publisher : Smithsonian Books (DC)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book CAVALRYMANS STORY written by Hamilton Hawkins Howze and published by Smithsonian Books (DC). This book was released on 1996-02-17 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "He began his career as a horse soldier, commanded a tank regiment in World War II, and retired as an accomplished sky cavalry tactician. In the course of thirty-five years in the military, Hamilton Howze witnessed and took part in a century's worth of change." "A Cavalryman's Story is the memoir of a professional soldier, born into the lineage of West Point and recognized today as the father of U.S. Army Airmobile tactics and doctrine. With understated charm and humor, the author writes of his polo-playing years in a 1930s Army that still relied on horses, and then of the sudden, almost remarkable transition to armored divisions when the United States entered World War II. He captures the tenor of combat from the "upper middle" perspective of a regimental commander, reading Clausewitz, battling tanks, and chasing the Germans across North Africa and Italy." "It was in the mid-1950s that General Howze emerged as one of a handful of perceptive army officers who recognized the potential of a sky cavalry - divisions in which helicopters replaced ground vehicles in providing fire power, mobility intelligence, and logistical support. As the first director of Army Aviation, General Howze promoted that concept to industry, the government, and the public. His vision came to fruition in the 1960s when he presided over the U.S. Army Tactical Mobility Requirements Board, known as the Howze Board, which made sweeping recommendations to Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara and proved the viability of sky cavalry in combat." "Revealing the temperament as well as the life history of an American gentleman-soldier, A Cavalryman's Story provides an authoritative look at the forging of the modern Army and a wry perspective on the perennial absurdities of military life, whether in peace or in war."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author : Stephen B. Oates
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292786166
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)
Download or read book Confederate Cavalry West of the River written by Stephen B. Oates and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-07-22 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Another Confederate cavalry raid impends. You hear the snort of an impatient horse, the leathery squeaking of saddles, the low-voiced commands of officers, the muffled cluck of guns cocked in preparation—then the sudden rush of motion, the din of another attack. This classic story seeks to illuminate a little-known theater of the Civil War—the cavalry battles of the Trans-Mississippi West, a region that included Missouri, Arkansas, Texas, the Indian Territory, and part of Louisiana. Stephen B. Oates traces the successes and defeats of the cavalry; its brief reinvigoration under John S. "Rip" Ford, who fought and won the last battle of the war at Palmetto Ranch; and finally, the disintegration of this once-proud fighting force.
Author : John Walter
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472842243
Total Pages : 81 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (728 download)
Download or read book Weapons of the Civil War Cavalryman written by John Walter and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-09-17 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the American Civil War, the mounted soldiers fighting on both sides of the conflict carried a wide array of weapons, from sabers and lances to carbines, revolvers, and other firearms. Though some sections of the cavalry placed their trust in the sabre, the advent of viable breechloading carbines -- especially repeaters such as the Spencer -- was to transform warfare within little more than a decade of General Lee's final surrender at Appomattox. However, output struggled to keep up with unprecedented demands on manufacturing technology and distribution in areas where communication was difficult and in states whose primary aim was to equip their own men rather than contribute to the arming of Federal or Confederate regiments. In addition, the almost unparalleled losses of men and equipment ensured that almost any firearm, effectual or not, was pressed into service. Consequently, the sheer variety of weaponry carried reflected the mounted soldiers' various roles in different theatres of operation, but also the availability -- or otherwise -- of weapons, notably on the Confederate side. Fully illustrated, this study assesses the effectiveness of the many different weapons arming the Civil War cavalryman and analyses the strengths and weaknesses of the decisions made after 1865 concerning the armament of the US cavalry.
Author : Charles B. Gatewood
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803227728
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Lt. Charles Gatewood and His Apache Wars Memoir written by Charles B. Gatewood and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Realizing that he had more experience dealing with Native peoples than other lieutenants serving on the frontier, Gatewood decided to record his experiences. Although he died before he completed his project, the work he left behind remains an important firsthand account of his life as a commander of Apache scouts and as a military commandant of the White Mountain Indian Reservation. Louis Kraft presents Gatewood's previously unpublished account, punctuating it with an introduction, additional text that fills in the gaps in Gatewood's narrative, detailed notes, and an epilogue."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Simon MacDowall
Publisher : Osprey Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781855325678
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (256 download)
Download or read book Late Roman Cavalryman AD 236–565 written by Simon MacDowall and published by Osprey Publishing. This book was released on 1995-11-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The twilight of the Roman Empire saw a revolution in the way war was waged. The drilled infantryman, who had been the mainstay of Mediterranean armies since the days of the Greek hoplite, was gradually replaced by the mounted warrior. This change did not take place overnight, and in the 3rd and 4th centuries the role of the cavalryman was primarily to support the infantry. However, by the time of the 6th century, the situation had been completely reversed. Late Roman Cavalryman gives a full account of the changing experience of the mounted soldiers who defended Rome's withering western empire.
Author : Max Kuhnert
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 0850522900
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (55 download)
Download or read book Will We See Tomorrow? written by Max Kuhnert and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 1993-12-01 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is a fact not generally remembered that most of the German Army of 1939-45, regarded as the most technologically advanced of its day, was horse-drawn. This is the memoir of Max Kuhnert who was a mounted cavalryman during World War II. Kuhnert, who came from Dresden, enlisted in the German Army in 1939, and was posted to a cavalry unit which, latterly, provided mounted reconnaissance troops for infantry regiments. His account tells of mobilization, the invasion of Poland, a spell in occupied Denmark, the invasion of France - during which his unit was very much in the vanguard - a return to Poland and the invasion of Russia, then retreat, wounding and return to Germany.
Author : Harold Sinclair
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (33 download)
Download or read book The Cavalryman written by Harold Sinclair and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This novel is based on the Northwest Expedition against the Sioux in the western Dakota Territory during the Civil War summer of 1864. Jack Marlowe, now a brigadier-general, has been relieved of his Southern command and sent into an area about which he knows nothing. His mission: to attack with a cavalry force of 2000 the Sioux federation of tribes assembled at Killdeer Mountain and at the same time to escort a wagon train through and beyond the Indian territory. He faces the challenges of undisciplined troops, insufficient food and water, the slow-moving wagon train and the hindrance of a personal involvement with settlers Ruth Hayes and her young brother, Jody. The accomplishment of Marlowe's task -- the routing of the Sioux, the deliverance of the settlers, the meeting of supply boats at the Yellowstone River -- is also the termination of an unreal romance.
Author : David Nicolle
Publisher : Osprey Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781841766454
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (664 download)
Download or read book Carolingian Cavalryman AD 768–987 written by David Nicolle and published by Osprey Publishing. This book was released on 2005-03-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The army of Charlemagne and his successors enabled the western Franks to recreate what contemporaries regarded as a 'reborn' western Roman empire. Frankish society was well prepared for war, with outstanding communications drawing together the disparate regions of a large empire. The role of mounted troops, the essential striking force of the Frankish army, is explored here. Alongside it was the impact that new technology, such as stirrups, had on warfare in this period. Illuminating a much-neglected area of history, this book shows how the role of cavalry grew in prestige, as the Carolingian armoured horseman gave way to the knight of the early 10th century.
Author : George Walsh
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0765312700
Total Pages : 479 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (653 download)
Download or read book Those Damn Horse Soldiers written by George Walsh and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2006 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William H. Leckie
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806183896
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)
Download or read book The Buffalo Soldiers written by William H. Leckie and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2012-10-19 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1967, William H. Leckie’s The Buffalo Soldiers was the first book of its kind to recognize the importance of African American units in the conquest of the West. Decades later, with sales of more than 75,000 copies, The Buffalo Soldiers has become a classic. Now, in a newly revised edition, the authors have expanded the original research to explore more deeply the lives of buffalo soldiers in the Ninth and Tenth Cavalry Regiments. Written in accessible prose that includes a synthesis of recent scholarship, this edition delves further into the life of an African American soldier in the nineteenth century. It also explores the experiences of soldiers’ families at frontier posts. In a new epilogue, the authors summarize developments in the lives of buffalo soldiers after the Indian Wars and discuss contemporary efforts to memorialize them in film, art, and architecture.
Author : Dwight W. Birdwell
Publisher : Presidio Press
ISBN 13 : 9780891417125
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (171 download)
Download or read book A Hundred Miles of Bad Road written by Dwight W. Birdwell and published by Presidio Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A riveting, gut-wrenching account of the lives of the young American soldiers whose courage was forged by the pitched battles of the Tet Offensive.-Al Santoli.
Author : Louis Kraft
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826321305
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (213 download)
Download or read book Gatewood and Geronimo written by Louis Kraft and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2000-06 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parallels the lives of Gatewood and Geronimo as events drive them toward their historic meeting in Mexico in 1886--a meeting that marked the beginning of the end of the last Apache war.
Author : Nic Fields
Publisher : Osprey Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781841769738
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (697 download)
Download or read book Roman Auxiliary Cavalryman written by Nic Fields and published by Osprey Publishing. This book was released on 2006-01-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawn from a wide range of warlike peoples throughout the provinces, especially on the fringes of the empire, auxiliaries were generally not citizens of the Roman empire. The cavalry of the auxilia provided a powerful fighting arm; organized, disciplined and well trained, it was adept at performing both skirmish and shock action. This book details the many roles of the Roman auxiliary cavalryman, including reconnaissance, communication and policing duties, as well as in battle. Motivation for enlisting, conditions of service and experience of battle are all explored, and colour illustrations support the text.
Author : Ivan Yakushin
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1783409118
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (834 download)
Download or read book On the Roads of War written by Ivan Yakushin and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2005-07-19 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A World War II survivor describes his combat experiences as a member of the Red Army’s 5th Guards Cavalry Division in the fight against the Nazi Germany. Ivan Yakushin survived the Siege of Leningrad, fought at the Battle of Kursk and pursued the retreating German army through Russia, Belorussia, Poland and into Germany itself. This is the story of his war. He tells the tale in his own words, with remarkable clarity of recall, and gives an authentic insight into what combat on the Eastern Front was like for the ordinary soldier. He also provides a detailed, firsthand record of cavalry operations during a highly mechanized war, and this gives his book its special value. The war for Yakushin began in Leningrad where he endured the terrifying first winter of the German siege. He describes the perils and privations that beset the city during a period in which over half a million civilians lost their lives. Yet it is his vivid recollections of his experiences as an artillery man, then a cavalry officer on the Eastern Front that are at the heart of this rare memoir. In the Kursk salient Yakushin was severely wounded in the legs, during the Nevel offensive and Operation Bagration he took part in daring cavalry raids behind the German lines and, as the Soviet army penetrated into East Prussia and Germany itself, he was confronted by increasingly desperate German units struggling to defend their homeland. His descriptions of the merciless fighting during these last months of the war, in particular against the fanatical German Volkssturm, make fascinating reading.
Author : Alexander Bielakowski
Publisher : Fonthill Media
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book From Horses to Horsepower written by Alexander Bielakowski and published by Fonthill Media. This book was released on 2019-09-08 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following World War I, horse cavalry entered a period during which it fought for its very existence against mechanized vehicles. On the Western Front, the stalemate of trench warfare became the defining image of the war throughout the world. While horse cavalry remained idle in France, the invention of the tank and its potential for success led many non-cavalry officers to accept the notion that the era of horse cavalry had passed. During the interwar period, a struggle raged within the U.S. Cavalry regarding its future role, equipment, and organization. Some cavalry officers argued that mechanized vehicles supplanted horses as the primary means of combat mobility within the cavalry, while others believed that the horse continued to occupy that role. The response of prominent cavalry officers to this struggle influenced the form and function of the U.S. Cavalry during World War II.
