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Impressions & Experiences of a French Cavalry Trooper During the First World War, 1914-15, With the 22nd Dragoons

Impressions & Experiences of a French Cavalry Trooper During the First World War, 1914-15, With the 22nd Dragoons

Mallet, Christian

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French HistoryGeneral Military HistoryWorld War I

ISBN10: 1782829156
ISBN13: 9781782829157
Publisher: Leonaur Ltd
Published: Aug 11 2020
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.38
Height: 0.30 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

A first-hand account of the twilight of the arme-blanche at war

This book is particularly engaging for several reasons. It principally concerns the opening campaigns of the Great War in Europe, before the time of trenches and wire, at a time when the fighting was still mobile. Cavalry on both sides was not only being employed in much the same way as it had been during the Napoleonic era, but the cavalrymen were dressed--complete with Corinthian helmets and horse-tails--in a style which would have been recognised by their great-grandfathers a century earlier. This first-hand account by an ordinary French cavalry trooper of a dragoon regiment rewards the reader with an intimate and immediate view of the conflict and of life within a cavalry regiment of the period. This concise, but fascinating recollection concerns the authors experiences in the fighting at Compiegne, Staden, Ypres and Loos. This Leonaur book contains images and photographs which were not included in the original edition.

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