Amid the mass destruction, the mud and the static trenches of the Great War, it soon became clear that the days of the heroic cavalry charge were over, as a mounted trooper from Stone quickly found ...

While the German Army of the world wars has drawn substantial attention in the literature, some of its components have been neglected. The branch that perhaps has been most ignored, was the cavalry.

Prof. Showalter and his collaborators look at a hitherto neglected aspect of German war making in 1914, reconnaissance, and find it wanting. They examine the doctrinal and structural flaws that ...

A group of German soldiers who were captured by the British during an offensive on the Western Front in 1918. Photo: DPA Germany and Russian suffered the highest number of casualties in WWI, which ...