Three decades after the outbreak of the second war, we are so familiar with mechanised vehicles both in warfare and in everyday life, that it is difficult for us to believe that shortly before the war began, important and intelligent commenators were prophecying that in it the horse would play a vital and possibly even decisive role
<p>It is Normandy, July 28, 1944. Outside Caen, the Americans have broken through the German defences.</p>