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babel.hathitrust.org is one of many data bases that form a huge library of publications of great depth of time, and width of subjects. The subject paper found during a search for a cavalry manual for US officers, is a compendium of regulations, descriptions, and lessons learned by the French and ...

What is the quality of the photos in that version?

Hard Press Classics has published a completely reprinted version the 1917 Manual for NCOs and Privates of Cavalry. The nearly 600 page manual is not a photo copy of the original, but is reset in new type. The down side is that it looks like a Word doc converted to Wordperfect with the usual ...

I knew it was a long shot, but I was hoping to find out what regiment my weapon was issue to. Serial 258 , with the original type scabbard and the tent pole pin still intact. I got it off ebay some years back, but could not get any details on its provenance from the seller. Likely an officer's ...

I received my copy a few days ago, and I must say it is an outstanding read and an excellent scholarly work. Of course I went to the chapter on the M1913 sabre, and was amazed at the amount of work that was done to bring it to the troops. For the truly detailed oriented, the CD is an outstanding ...

This historical fiction, published in 1997, tells the story of a young boy, Joseph Gershomsoln, from an outcast Jewish family in Dittelheim Bavaria. The boy is a natural horse genius who works with his father in breeding and training cavalry horses for the elite Royal Wittelbach Hussar regiment ...

My apologies. I didn’t realize the subject line limitations.
Mechanized Juggernaut or Military Anachronism? Horses and the German Army of World War II. R. L. DiNardo

Was the German Army the highly efficient mechanized force that conquered Europe and nearly the Soviet Union? Were they fighting the WWII with transportation technology little better than that used by Napoleon? Was the extensive use of horses by the Wehrmacht a reflection of poor logistical planning ...