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Author : Swafford Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : History
ISBN : 0517460831
Details the history of the Cavalry units of dragoons of the American Revolution into the 20th century of mechanized units.
Author : Alexander Bielakowski
Publisher : Fonthill Media
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-08
Category : History
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
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.
Author : Keith W. Nolan
Publisher : Quarto Publishing Group USA
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2010-07-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781610600750
Using firsthand accounts from Vietnam soldiers, this book “tells it like it is, warts and all . . . [an] honest account of a cavalry squadron’s experience” (Military Review). The 1st Squadron, 1st Cavalry Regiment, of the 1st Armored Division deployed to Vietnam from Fort Hood, Texas, in August 1967. Search and Destroy covers the 1/1’s harrowing first year and a half of combat in the war’s toughest area of operations: I Corps. The book takes readers into the savage action at infamous places like Tam Ky, the Que Son Valley, the Pineapple Forest, Hill 34, and Cigar Island, chronicling General Westmoreland’s search-and-destroy war of attrition against the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army. Exploring the gray areas of guerrilla war, military historian Keith Nolan details moments of great compassion toward the Vietnamese, but also eruptions of My Lai-like violence, the grimmer aspects of the 1/1’s successes. Search and Destroy is a rare account of an exemplary fighting force in action, a dramatic close-up look at the Vietnam War. “Nolan’s research, his comprehension of the political as well as the military actions, his careful concern for those who were there, and, most of all, his writing, are superb.” —Stephen Ambrose
Author : Harry Yeide
Publisher : Zenith Imprint
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : 1616738995
Author : Mary Lee Stubbs,Stanley Russell Connor,United States. Dept. of the Army. Office of Military History
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UIUC:30112045904676
Author : James Alexander Thom
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2010-08-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307763167
A legend. A warrior. A hero. A classic American epic. Two centuries ago, with the support of the young Revolutionary government, George Rogers Clark led a small but fierce army west from Virginia to conquer all the territory between the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. He battled the British, forged friendships with French and Spanish settlers, and made treaties with many Indian tribes who revered the lanky, red-haired white man and called him Long Knife. He fell in love with the woman of his dreams, the beautiful Spanish maiden Teresa de Leyba. And George Rogers Clark was, in the end, bitterly betrayed by the same government he had so nobly served. Rich in the heroic characters, meticulously researched detail, and grand scale that have become James Alexander Thom’s trademarks, Long Knife, his first historical epic, is simply unforgettable.
Author : George Hofmann
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2006-07-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813171425
The U.S. Cavalry, which began in the nineteenth century as little more than a mounted reconnaissance and harrying force, underwent intense growing pains with the rapid technological developments of the twentieth century. From its tentative beginnings during World War I, the eventual conversion of the traditional horse cavalry to a mechanized branch is arguably one of the greatest military transformations in history. Through Mobility We Conquer recounts the evolution and development of the U.S. Army’s modern mechanized cavalry and the doctrine necessary to use it effectively. The book also explores the debates over how best to use cavalry and how these discussions evolved during the first half of the century. During World War I, the first cavalry theorist proposed combining arms coordination with a mechanized force as an answer to the stalemate on the Western Front. Hofmann brings the story through the next fifty years, when a new breed of cavalrymen became cold war warriors as the U.S. Constabulary was established as an occupation security-police force. Having reviewed thousands of official records and manuals, military journals, personal papers, memoirs, and oral histories—many of which were only recently declassified—George F. Hofmann now presents a detailed study of the doctrine, equipment, structure, organization, tactics, and strategy of U.S. mechanized cavalry during the changing international dynamics of the first half of the twentieth century. Illustrated with dozens of photographs, maps, and charts, Through Mobility We Conquer examines how technology revolutionized U.S. forces in the twentieth century and demonstrates how perhaps no other branch of the military underwent greater changes during this time than the cavalry.
Author : John Ellis
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2004-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781844150960
The author explores in detail the history of mounted warfare which in reality is a history of war itself. For over 3,000 years the mounted warrior was a dominant figure, mobility and speed of the horse were invaluable, and the charge itself often the defining moment of any battle. The author has gone to great lengths to make this a highly readable, well researched, beautifully illustrated history. This book will delight everyone interested in military history and those who are thrilled by the special 'romance' of the horse in warfare.
Author : Lucian King Truscott,Lucian K. Truscott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UCAL:B4233942
Lucian Truscott takes the reader back in this military memoir to the days of the horse cavalry in American history.
Author : Mary Lee Stubbs,Stanley Russell Connor
Publisher : Wildside Press
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1434458121
Mary Lee Stubbs (Chief of the Organizational History Branch of the O.S. Office of the Chief of Military History) and Stanley Russell Connor (Deputy Chief of the U.S. Organizational History Branch, OCMH) wrote the 1968 Armor-Cavalry Part I: Regular Army and Army Reserve, part of the Army Lineage Series, which was "designed to foster the esprit de corps of United States Army units."
Author : John Herr,Edward Wallace
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1999-01-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0316358703
Author : José Antonio Mayoralas
Publisher : Historical Warriors
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2006-12
Category : History
ISBN : 8496527875
The US Cavalry is a theme that reminds the reader of some of the most heroic actions in the military history of all times and at all the corners of the globe. This body, surrounded by the myths that made the US Cavalry known worldwide has seen how its image was either glorified with great campaigns idealized mainly by Hollywood, which were really nothing of the sort, or depicted too negatively with cruel actions, sometimes over exaggerated by subjective accounts. This book, pertaining the Historical Warriors collection, provides a brief introduction through various chapters, to what was the US Cavalry between 1865 and 1890, handling themes such as the myth and reality of this military body, its composition after the Succession War, the migration of the colonists and the role of the cavalry in the so called 'Indian problem'. From a strictly human viewpoint, the book also reveals the cavalry's social characteristics, in chapters dedicated to soldiers and officers' lifestyle and the cavalry's origins within the state of the American society of the epoch, as well as interesting introduction on discipline and life in the fort and on campaign. As far as the cavalry as a body is concerned, the book takes a look at the formation of the different regiments, combat strategies used during the Indian wars and in the great campaigns, equipment and armor, horses and their care and the different uniforms from the Civil War up to the last modifications, not forgetting to mention civilian clothing. The final chapters detail the main actions and portray the key players in this epic adventure. All the chapters are illustrated with photographs from the epoch, color illustrations, maps and diagrams, providing the reader with greater enjoyment of this essential work for those fascinated by military history.
Author : Gordon L. Rottman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 103 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-07-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781780968742
The cavalry regiments of the US Army were in the process of being transformed into a mechanized force when the USA entered World War II. While those cavalry regiments deployed to the Pacific to fight the Japanese were turned into infantry units, those sent to Europe were employed as light armor in the cavalry's traditional spearhead roles – reconnaissance, the screening of advances and flanks, and the pursuit of beaten enemy forces. Equipped with M8 Greyhound armored cars, M5 Stuart and M24 Chaffee light tanks, and halftracks, these units were designated cavalry groups (mechanized), each c. 1,700 strong and divided into two heavily armed squadrons. They were seldom attached to divisions, but to higher-level corps commands, meaning they could be shifted around quickly and independently and be formed at need into flexible battle groups with armored, infantry, and other units, depending on the mission. Featuring specially drawn full-color illustrations depicting uniforms, insignia, armored vehicles, and tactical scenarios, this is the story of the US cavalry units that led the advance to victory in Europe during World War II.
Author : Philip St. George Cooke
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2004-06-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780811740036
Directed by the U.S. War Department in 1859 to prepare a new, revised manual for U.S. cavalry operations, then-Col. Philip St. George Cooke produced this book after extensive research of cavalry tactics used by the advanced nations in Europe, where he had been an observer in the Crimean War (1854-1856). Originally published in 1860, the book was revised in 1861 and 1862. This 1862 Government Printing Office edition combines the former two volume work into one book.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781463498412