Polish cavalry and story-telling.

Here's a picture of what the famous hussars looked like.
The hussars are considered to be the world's most effective fighting force, since, they were undefeated for over two hundred years. The Warsaw Voice reports that

author Jonathan T. Scott has written a novel which features historical Polish figures alongside fictional characters. The adventures of captain Kavalevski and his adopted son Alexander take place in the latter half of the 16th century, the most prosperous period of the Polish-Lithuanian
Commonwealth. The fast-paced plot is set against real events like the war with the Duchy of Muscovy which King Stefan Batory waged in 1579.

The beginning of the book looks familiar, with a military unit patrolling remote outposts in search of gangs prowling the borders. It is a bit like a western, except that instead of American cavalry the reader gets hussars, a kind of Polish heavy cavalry, and instead of Native Americans wreaking havoc in pioneers' settlements, the book has Tartars, Turks and the army of a Moldavian duke.

The author says it was his fascination with hussar armor on a visit to the Polish Military Museum in Warsaw that gave him inspiration to write the book.

The book is called On Wings. Sounds like a good book for summer reading.

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