Mounted warriors
Subtitle: from Alexander the Great and Cromwell to Stewart, Sheridan, and Custer
By: Gene Smith.
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Hoboken, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780471783329
Subjects: Cavalry -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Beginnings; title: Xenophon and Alexander; title: Barbarians and the Age of Chivalry; title: The high Middle Ages; title: Terrible as death, relentless as doom?; title: My children, follow me!?; title: Light horse Harry; title: The highest calling a soldier could know?; title: The crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood?; title: The best damned cavalryman ever foaled in America?; title: Little Phil; title: The war; title: For this are we soldiers?; title: No one ever came to grief, except honorable grief, through riding horses?; title: The desert mounted corps; title: It was a bit of a fa'ade, wasn't it?; title: The last cavalry charge.