Lake Views (9780674071995) by Weinberg Steven

Author:Weinberg, Steven [Weinberg, Steven]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr
Published: 2009-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

AMONG THE BOOKS DRAWN ON FOR THIS ESSAY

A Stillness at Appomattox: The Army of the Potomac, vol. 3, by Bruce Catton (Anchor).

The World Crisis, vol. 4, by Winston S. Churchill (Scribner).

Infantry Warfare in the Early Fourteenth Century, by Kelly DeVries (Boydell and Brewer, distributed in the US by University of Rochester Press).

Crusade in Europe, by Dwight D. Eisenhower (Johns Hopkins University Press).

The Carmen de Hastingae Proelio of Guy, Bishop of Amiens, translated and edited by Catherine Morton and Hope Muntz (Clarendon Press).

War in European History, by Michael Howard (Oxford University Press).

From the Dreadnought to Scapa Flow, vol. 4, by Arthur J. Marder (Oxford University Press).

Atlanta 1864: Last Chance for the Confederacy, by Richard M. McMurry (University of Nebraska Press).

Winged Defense: The Development and Possibilities of Modern Air Power—Economic and Military, by William Mitchell (Dover).

Coral Sea, Midway, and Submarine Actions, May 1942–August 1942, by Samuel Eliot Morison (Little Brown; part of a fifteen-volume set).

A History of the Art of War in the Middle Ages, by C. W. C. Oman (Burt Franklin, two volumes).

The Art of War in the Middle Ages, AD 378–1515, by C. W. C. Oman, revised and edited by John H. Beeler (Cornell University Press).

Mohammed and Charlemagne, by Henri Pirenne (Dover).

Hankey: Man of Secrets, Vol. 1, 1877–1918, by Stephen Roskill (Naval Institute Press).

The Victory at Sea, by William S. Sims (James Stevenson).

The Bayeux Tapestry: A Comprehensive Survey, edited by Frank Stenton (Phaidon).

Eisenhower’s Lieutenants: The Campaign of France and Germany, 1944–1945, by Russell F. Weigley (Indiana University Press).

A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II, by Gerhard L. Weinberg (Cambridge University Press).

Medieval Technology and Social Change, by Lynn White (Oxford University Press).

The Gesta Guillelmi of William of Poitiers, translated and edited by R. H. C. Davis and Marjorie Chibnall (Oxford University Press).

The New York Review of Books published two interesting letters commenting on the foregoing article. One letter, by Professor R. Howard Bloch of Yale’s French Department, was published in December 2003. Professor Bloch disagreed with my statement that the cavalry charge with couched lance was not an effective military technique in the Middle Ages. He pointed out that the Normans who fought at the Battle of Hastings thought highly enough of this technique to bring horses with them across the Channel. He further claimed that Normans had used the couched lance in Southern Italy before the Conquest, most dramatically in their defeat of a papal army at Civitate in 1053.

The other letter, by Harry Lieber, was published the following April. Mr. Lieber acknowledged that I might be right about the ineffectiveness of the cavalry charge with couched lance in the Middle Ages, but argued that this technique won the day at the Battle of Vienna in 1683. He pointed out that the Polish heavy cavalry under King Sobieski broke the Turkish line and sent the Turkish army, largely infantry, into flight. I answered the two letters with the following remarks.

Though I am grateful to Professor Bloch for his compliment about my article “What Price Glory?” in the November 6 issue, I can’t agree that I was wrong about the Battle of Hastings.

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