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Light Horse: A History of Australia’s Mounted Arm (Australian Army History Series)

Jean Bou
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The mounted soldier is one of the most evocative symbols in Australian military history. Now a celebrated part of Australia’s army heritage, the role and very existence of mounted troops in modern warfare was being called into question at the time of its most crowning military moments. Light horse regiments, particularly those that served in South Africa, Palestine and the trenches of Gallipoli, played a vital role in Australia’s early military campaigns. Based on extensive research from both Australia and Britain, this book is a comprehensive history of the Australian Light Horse in war and peace. Historian Jean Bou examines the place of the light horse in Australia’s military history throughout its existence, from its antecedents in the middle of the nineteenth century, until the last regiment was disbanded in 1944. First Edition, pp. 361, illusts #0518 A FINE COPY Jean Bou is a historian at the Australian War Memorial and a Visiting Fellow at the Australian National University, where he is working on the multi-volume Official History of Australian Peacekeeping, Humanitarian and Post-Cold War Operations. He is the author or co-editor of several books on Australian military history including Light Horse: a History of Australia’s Mounted Arm, A Century of Service, Duty First (2nd edition) and The Oxford Companion to Australian Military History (2nd edition). An Army Reserve officer in the RAAC, he is presently serving with the Army History Unit.

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AuthorJean Bou
PublisherCambridge University Press
Year Published20110
Book Condition

As new.

Binding Type

Hardcover in Dustjacket

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