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.

As winter closed in on the Eastern Front in 1941, Germany’s cavalry was pushed to the edge of extinction—both literally and militarily. In this haunting first-person account, a soldier recounts the ...

GRAFENWOEHR, Germany — One U.S. Army unit in Europe has found a popular way to keep soldiers from getting behind the wheel after downing steins of the local Bavarian lager. The Army’s 2nd Cavalry ...

Kurt David, member of the Jewish ex-Servicemen’s Federation and founder of the Union of ex-Cavalrymen in the district of Wessel, from which he was forced to resign under the provisions of the Aryan ...

As mortar fire beats a staccato rhythm across the farm field, mounted German soldiers flank the Axis line holding firm as its infantrymen advance against the Allies positioned beyond a ...

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In the 130th Station Hospital in Heidelberg (a former German cavalry barracks), General George Smith Patton Jr. was fighting for his life. His neck had been broken in an auto accident when he was on ...

BAD WINDSHEIM, Germany – U.S. Soldiers from the 1st Air Cavalry Brigade, currently on rotation to Europe for Atlantic Resolve, took an opportunity last week to build community relations and internal ...

Tired of ads? Subscribers enjoy a distraction-free reading experience. Click here to subscribe today or Login. Sabres drawn, the British cavalry charges toward a German encampment in this scene from ...