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A Twilight of Centaurs - The Opening Campaigns of the First World War as Witnessed by an American Volunteer Driver with British Cavalry on the (Hardcover)
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A Twilight of Centaurs - The Opening Campaigns of the First World War as Witnessed by an American Volunteer Driver with British Cavalry on the (Hardcover)
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The American, his motor car and the cavalry in its last great
conflict
This essential Leonaur Original, combines two works by American
author Frederic Coleman, and has been published to coincide with
the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War in 1914.
Coleman, an American member of the Royal Automobile Club, together
with a number of like minded volunteers, offered his own motor
vehicle and services as a driver to the war effort. In 1914 they
and their collection of superior cars arrived at the Western Front
to be used as chauffeurs and couriers by staff and regimental
officers of division and brigade. For many the Great War means
massive armies locked in a war of attrition fought over a ' No
Man's Land ' fringed with barbed wire behind which helmeted
soldiers cowered in squalid trenches. For much of the war that
image is accurate, but it was not always so. In the early stages
infantry marched, cavalry charged and artillery was pulled into
action by horsepower, just as it had been for hundreds of years.
The invading Imperial German Army, superior in numbers and
equipment of every kind, swept through Belgium and France as the
allied armies fought and retired before its might. Coleman was
allocated to the 2nd Cavalry Brigade of De Lisle as part of
Allenby's First Cavalry Division. He kept a meticulous diary that
enabled him to write these well crafted and detailed books full of
anecdote, narrative and action. 'President' Coleman (as he was
christened by the cavalry) was an eyewitness in the very heart of
the conflict and in the company of the officers and men of the
British Army's cavalry regiments he takes the reader from the
campaigns of 1914 and the retreat from Mons to the war of stalemate
of 1915. His descriptions of cavalry in action on the field of
battle are riveting. Aside from his fascinating insights into some
of the last campaigns of mounted soldiers, Coleman also provides
the reader with a thrilling account of his own adventures with his
trusty and almost indestructible motor car.
Leonaur editions are newly typeset and are not facsimiles; each
title is available in softcover and hardback with dustjacket; our
hardbacks are cloth bound and feature gold foil lettering on their
spines and fabric head and tail bands.
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