Cavalry from hoof to track /
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| Author / Creator: | Jarymowycz, Roman Johann, 1945- |
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| Imprint: | Westport, Conn. : Praeger Security International, 2008. |
| Description: | xx, 276 p., [15] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | War, technology, and history, 1556-4924 |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6659409 |
Table of Contents:
- Series Foreword
- Foreword
- Preface
- 1. Cavalry and the Operational Art
- 2. The Classical Horse
- 3. The West in Decline: Mongol Cavalry
- 4. The Medieval Cavalry
- 5. Into the Aufklarung: Cavalry and the Lace Wars
- 6. Napoleonics, Part I: Cavalry Becomes an Operational Arm
- 7. Napoleonics, Part II: Ulm to Waterloo
- 8. The Industrialized Warhorse: From Balaclava to Gettysburg
- 9. The Warhorse versus Technology: From Mars-La-Tour to Little Bighorn: From the Sudan to Manchuria
- 10. Cavalry in the Great War, Part I: The Golden Summer
- 11. Cavalry in the Great War, Part II: Tactical Stalemate and Quest for Breakthrough
- 12. Mechanization and the Cavalry: Toward an Epiphanic Moment
- 13. Cavalry in the Second World War, Part I: The American Apocalypse
- 14. Cavalry in the Second World War, Part II: The Horse within Blitzkrieg
- 15. Cavalry in the Second World War, Part III: The Russian Warhorse and the Tank
- 16. Cold Warhorse: Pegasus ex Machina
- 17. The Warhorse in the New Millennium: Hoofed and Tracked
- 18. The Deliquescence of the Cavalry
- Notes
- Index
