Along with period paintings, objects and maps, from the Household Cavalry's archives and museum, this book takes the reader on a 350-year historical narrative from Cromwell and the English Civil Wars, James II and the Battle of Sedgemoor, through Wellington and Waterloo, and Victoria and the Boer Wars right through to Churchill and the WWII.

Professor Speidel's book represents the first history of the Roman horse guard ever written and provides a readable account of the intricate part these men played in the fate of the Roman empire and its emperors.

This regiment, once amalgamated from the the Blues (Royal Horse Guards) and the Royal Dragoons, is now going through a further scale down. This regimental history goes back to the earliest days.