German Influence on British Cavalry - Childers, Erskine

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Résumé :
First published in 1911, this vintage book contains an fascinating account of how British cavalry was influenced by German practices and techniques at the turn of the twentieth century. Contents include: Introductory, Sir John French on, The Arme Blanche, The British Theory of The Arme Blanche, Cavalry In Combat, Tactics Against The Various Arms, The Fight Of The Independent Cavalry, Tactics Against The Various Arms, The Fight Of The Independent Cavalry, The Battle Of All Arms, etc. This fantastic volume will appeal to those with an interest in military history and the evolution of modern cavalry in particular. Robert Erskine Childers (1870-1922) was a British-born Irish writer. Other notable works by this author include: The Riddle of the Sands (1903), The Framework for Home Rule (1911), and War and the Arme Blanche (1910). Read & Co. is republishing this classic work in a brand new edition complete with an introductory excerpt from 'Remembering Sion' by Ryan Desmond.

Biographie:
Robert Erskine Childers DSC, better known as Erskine Childers, was an English-born Irish nationalist who rose to prominence as a writer with accounts of the Second Boer War, the novel The Riddle of the Sands about German plans for a sea-borne invasion of England, and proposals for Irish independence. Childers, a fervent believer in the British Empire, served as a volunteer in the army expeditionary force during the Second Boer War in South Africa, but his experiences there triggered a progressive disenchantment with British empire. Childers was born in Mayfair, London in 1870. He was the second son of Robert Caesar Childers, an ecclesiastical translator and oriental scholar, and Anna Mary Henrietta Barton, an Anglo-Irish landowner from Glendalough House, Annamoe, County Wicklow, who had interests in France, including the vineyard that bears their name. When Erskine was six years old, his father died of tuberculosis, and his mother, despite displaying no signs of the disease at the time, was admitted to an isolation hospital to protect her children. She corresponded with Childers on a regular basis until she died of tuberculosis six years later, having not seen her children since. The five children were brought to Glendalough to live with the Bartons, their mother's uncle's household....

Sommaire:
First published in 1911, this vintage book contains an fascinating account of how British cavalry was influenced by German practices and techniques at the turn of the twentieth century. Contents include: Introductory, Sir John French on, The Arme Blanche, The British Theory of The Arme Blanche, Cavalry In Combat, Tactics Against The Various Arms, The Fight Of The Independent Cavalry, Tactics Against The Various Arms, The Fight Of The Independent Cavalry, The Battle Of All Arms, etc. This fantastic volume will appeal to those with an interest in military history and the evolution of modern cavalry in particular. Robert Erskine Childers (1870-1922) was a British-born Irish writer. Other notable works by this author include: The Riddle of the Sands (1903), The Framework for Home Rule (1911), and War and the Arme Blanche (1910). Read & Co. is republishing this classic work in a brand new edition complete with an introductory excerpt from 'Remembering Sion' by Ryan Desmond....