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 CAVALRY

 FRIEDRICH
 von BERNHARDI




 CAVALRY
 A POPULAR EDITION OF
 "CAVALRY IN WAR AND PEACE"

 BY
 GENERAL FRIEDRICH von BERNHARDI
 _Author of "How Germany Makes War"_

 WITH A PREFACE BY
 FIELD-MARSHAL SIR J.D.P. FRENCH
 G.C.B., G.C.V.O., K.C.M.G.

 THIS EDITION EDITED BY A. HILLIARD
 ATTERIDGE FROM THE TRANSLATION BY
 MAJOR G.T.M. BRIDGES, D.S.O.
 4TH ROYAL (IRISH) DRAGOON GUARDS

 NEW YORK
 GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY




 Copyright, 1914, by
 GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY




EDITOR'S NOTE


General von Bernhardi is best known in England as a writer of the
"Jingo" School which has done so much to produce the war, but this
is only one side of his literary activity. He is also a writer of
recognised ability on the theory and practice of modern war. Sir John
French's introduction to the present work is sufficient testimony to
the value which is set upon his purely professional writings.

General von Bernhardi is a distinguished cavalry officer, and he writes
with remarkable independence on the special work of his own arm, never
hesitating to criticise the regulations of the German Army, when he
considers that they do not correspond to the actual conditions of war.
The book, though written in the first instance for cavalry officers,
will be found of interest to all who wish to understand what cavalry
is called upon to do and how it does it in the war of to