Warrior was first published by Jack Seely about the horse he took to France in 1914, surviving four years of bombs and bullets to lead a cavalry charge in 1918. After the end of the war they both returned home to Brook on the Isle of Wight where they rode together untim 1938. This book tells the story of Warrior from his birth on the Isle of Wight to his life as a famous war horse surviving a war that claimed the lives of eight million horses and mules.
In many ways it is a love story between a man and his horse written in an old fashioned style, but it is a facinating glimpse into the details of how horse warfare was conducted and the shere logistic problems of having so many animals at the Western Front. Do read it for the details of how a mounted war was conducted and the facinating way horses were used. General Jack Seely was first and foremost a calvery officer who had served in the Boer War and was convinced that mounted calvery were the future of modern mobile warfare - dispite the introduction of the lumbering new Tank.......
Do read this easily digestable book and learn how mounted warefare was conducted and how one man can love a horse so much (which I am sure was reciprocated!).