Cavalry

Author : David Kendrick, Jr
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cavalry written by David Kendrick, Jr and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-02-25 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Feeling lost in the world and without direction, an African American kid from New York is looking for a way out of Rochester. At only seventeen-years-old, he finds it as a 19D-Cavalry Scout in the United States Army.In this compelling and transparent memoir written by a Purple Heart awarded veteran, David Kendrick, Jr. shares the story of life outside of everything familiar to him, the way he meets his first love, and the bonds that were formed with the special group of men who would become his unit brothers - the 3-61st Cavalry Regiment.When David and his brothers deploy to Iraq in 2006, they fight on the front lines for freedom and for each other. Together, along with joy, they experience agony, misery, and heartbreak. Over time, David learns the true meaning of sacrifice and selfless service. He learns what it means to be a man. He learns what it means to be a soldier. He learns what it means to be . . . Cavalry.

Author : John Ellis
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1844150968
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cavalry written by John Ellis and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2004-04-30 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : P. Willey
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 080615330X
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Health of the Seventh Cavalry written by P. Willey and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With its charismatic leader George Custer and its memorable encounters with Plains Indians, including the Battle of the Little Bighorn, the Seventh Cavalry serves as the iconic regiment in the post–Civil War U.S Army. Voluminous written documentation as well as archaeological and osteological research suggest that the soldiers of the Seventh represented a cross section of the men who joined the army as a whole at the time. In Health of the Seventh Cavalry, editors P. Willey and Douglas D. Scott and their co-contributors—experts in history, medicine, human biology, epidemiology, and human osteology—examine the Seventh’s medical records to determine the health of the nineteenth-century U.S. Army, and the prevalence and treatment of the numerous conditions that plagued soldiers during the Indian Wars. Building on previous comparisons of archaeological evidence and medical records, Willey and Scott follow multiple lines of inquiry to assess the health of the Seventh, from its organization in 1866 to its 1884 station on the Northern Great Plains. Pairing general overviews of nineteenth- and twentieth-century health care with essays on malaria, injuries, post-traumatic stress disorder, and other specific ailments, Health of the Seventh Cavalry provides fresh insights into the health, disease, and trauma that the regiment experienced over two decades. More than 100 tables, graphs, and maps track the troops’ illnesses and diseases by month, season, year, and location, as well as their stress periods, desertions, and deaths. A glossary of medical terms rounds out the volume. As an ideal exemplar of regiments of its time, the Seventh Cavalry affords scholars and enthusiasts a better understanding of nineteenth-century health and medicine. This volume reveals the struggles that the post–Civil War Seventh, and the entire U.S. Army, faced on the battlefield and elsewhere.

Author : George Walsh
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0765312700
Total Pages : 479 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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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 : Lewis Edward Nolan
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781406996975
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cavalry written by Lewis Edward Nolan and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the original versions are generally quite old, there may occasionally be certain imperfections within these reproductions. We're happy to make these classics available again for future generations to enjoy!

Author : Swafford Johnson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780517460832
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of the U.S. Cavalry written by Swafford Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Details the history of the Cavalry units of dragoons of the American Revolution into the 20th century of mechanized units.

Author : David R Dorondo
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 : 1612510876
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Riders of the Apocalypse written by David R Dorondo and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2012-05-15 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the enduring popular image of the blitzkrieg of World War II, the German Army always depended on horses. It could not have waged war without them. While the Army’s reliance on draft horses to pull artillery, supply wagons, and field kitchens is now generally acknowledged, D. R. Dorondo’s Riders of the Apocalypse examines the history of the German cavalry, a combat arm that not only survived World War I but also rode to war again in 1939. Though concentrating on the period between 1939 and 1945, the book places that history firmly within the larger context of the mounted arm’s development from the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 to the Third Reich’s surrender. Driven by both internal and external constraints to retain mounted forces after 1918, the German Army effectively did nothing to reduce, much less eliminate, the preponderance of non-mechanized formations during its breakneck expansion under the Nazis after 1933. Instead, politicized command decisions, technical insufficiency, industrial bottlenecks, and, finally, wartime attrition meant that Army leaders were compelled to rely on a steadily growing number of combat horsemen throughout World War II. These horsemen were best represented by the 1st Cavalry Brigade (later Division) which saw combat in Poland, the Netherlands, France, Russia, and Hungary. Their service, however, came to be cruelly dishonored by the horsemen of the 8th Waffen-SS Cavalry Division, a unit whose troopers spent more time killing civilians than fighting enemy soldiers. Throughout the story of these formations, and drawing extensively on both primary and secondary sources, Dorondo shows how the cavalry’s tradition carried on in a German and European world undergoing rapid military industrialization after the mid-nineteenth century. And though Riders of the Apocalypse focuses on the German element of this tradition, it also notes other countries’ continuing (and, in the case of Russia, much more extensive) use of combat horsemen after 1900. However, precisely because the Nazi regime devoted so much effort to portray Germany’s armed forces as fully modern and mechanized, the combat effectiveness of so many German horsemen on the battlefields of Europe until 1945 remains a story that deserves to be more widely known. Dorondo’s work does much to tell that story.

Author : Leslie J Worley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429720025
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hippeis written by Leslie J Worley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-28 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The achievements of the Greek cavalry on the battlefield were monumental, and yet until now the heavy infantry - the hoplite - has received by far the most attention from military historians. This book traces the history of the Greek cavalry, offering a reassessment of the place of mounted troops in the warfare of Ancient Greece. Its historical sweep is broad, with coverage which extends from 1400 BC, through the Archaic period to the Classical period.

Author : Keith W. Nolan
Publisher : Quarto Publishing Group USA
ISBN 13 : 1610600754
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Search and Destroy written by Keith W. Nolan and published by Quarto Publishing Group USA. This book was released on 2010-07-08 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Mary Lee Stubbs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Armor-cavalry written by Mary Lee Stubbs and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: