Sables al viento: la caballería en guerra moderna (1860 1945): 107

The complete history of cavalry from Balaclava to the Second World War. From the Charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava to the last gallops amid tanks and machine guns, this is the great story of cavalry in modern warfare. For nearly a century, from 1860 to 1945, mounted troops ranged across the world: they crossed the prairies of the Wild West, achieved one of their most heroic feats with the Alcántara Hunters Regiment, and played a crucial role in both world wars. Ismael López traces their path across every front: the American Civil War, the colonial campaigns, the storm of steel of the Great War, the steppes where the Red Cavalry burst onto the scene, the battlefields of the Spanish Civil War, and the theatres of the Second World War, where horsemen continued to ride with sabres in the wind. Through its great leaders, famous units and most brilliant exploits, Sables in the Wind dismantles myths and reconstructs the evolution and spirit of a branch of arms that was declared obsolete too soon. A comprehensive and ambitious work, grounded in previously unpublished sources, Sables in the Wind is a sweeping and vivid narrative of men, horses and battles, from a time when riders could still change the course of a war.