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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...

Table of Contents

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

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      Publisher: Cornell University Press
      Publication Date: 26/11/2018
      ISBN13: 9780875807942, 978-0875807942
      ISBN10: 0875807941
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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...

      Table of Contents

      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

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