The Cavalry of World War II.

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania:: Historical Times, 1987.. 1st American Edition.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: black boards; a Fine book, with a Fine dust jacket; publisher's price on the jacket flap is intact.. small 4to (about 10.5 inches tall) . Appendix, bibliography, index. Photo endpapers. Description: Several maps. Profusely illustrated with WWII photographs showing all aspects of cavalry life, and includes the uses of the heavy horse; many of the pictures were previously unpublished.. From the jacket blurb: ''This book provides the first detailed history of the employment of mounted units during World War II. It contains not only an extensive chronological account of the campaigns in which cavalry was involved, but also a thorough examination of the formations and units of the nations concerned. It shows exactly how mounted units were used in battle, and where their tactical and strategic value lay. The author's researches into the letters and memoirs of cavalrymen and the records of their regiments have enabled him to give an extremely vivid impression of what it was like to fight on horseback on battlefields dominated by tanks and automatic weapons -- how it felt, for example, to be part of a massed charge against prepared defenses, or to be a mounted partisan operating hundreds of miles behind enemy lines.'' This was originally published in Germany in 1976.