Longknives: The U.S. Cavalry and Other Mounted Forces, 1845-1942

by Kurt Cox

Book Overview

A history of the United States Army during the time it served as the vanguard of western expansion and a description of its uniforms and equipment in the late nineteenth century. Each volume in this... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1853672335
• ISBN13: 9781853672330
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Greenhill Books
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 7.5" x 10.2"

Customer Reviews

Clear and Incisive Study

J. Phillip Langelleir, the co-author has produced a slew of photo studies with incisive text on the life and times of the U.S. soldier, and his Spanish and Mexican californio predecessors also. His specialty is in gathering together contemporary source material for the illustrations. This method has the great virtue of showing what was what and when. But if no photos are available, then something may be omitted. All of these books are vertical studies covering a period of years. Though sometimes the illustrations serve to identify individual items of equipment, these works are not intended for that purpose. They are not catalogs intended for materiel collectors. They are of such a length and of such a level of detail that they will serve the purposes of the general reader with a curiousity about what grandaddy did in WW II or great great great grandaddy in the Civil War and what he looked like and how he lived. This is not to say that the specialist such as myself cannot find useful nuggets herein. I can. I use these for general surveys of periods I do not study in detail, such as the Civil War, and the War With Mexico, etc. And to look up the odd facts. I have yet to be disappointed with any of them.