The Lighthorsemen

William T. Sherman told that the war was hell, but few people believed him. Romantic vision of war as a display of chivalry, valour, honour and noble sacrifice was more popular. WW1 changed all that with the pointless slaughter and unimaginable suffering in the trenches of Northern France. In the same WW1 was fought on many different battlefields, and some of its episodes looked like they had slipped from the earlie…