PRESENTATION COPY
Thoughts on war.
London.
Faber and Faber, [1944].
First edition.
8vo.
327pp, [1]. Original publisher's navy cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. Without dustwrapper. Rubbed and marked, upper joint split. Scattered spotting. Presentation copy, ink inscription to recto of FFEP: 'To F. O. Miksche / in friendship and admiration - for his own / zealous and stimulating thoughts on war / from / B. H. Liddell Hart'.
The first edition of historian Sir Basil Henry Liddell Hart's (1895-1970) treatise on the nature, conduct and operations of war; from minor tactics to grand strategy.
Ferdinand Otto Miksche (1904-1992), Austrian-born army officer and military theorist. Miksche joined the Czechoslovakian Army in 1927. A veteran of the Spanish Civil War, during which he served with the International Brigades on the side of the Republicans, he held various positions with the Allied Forces during the Second World War. He saw action in France in 1940 and was later attached to Free French forces, serving on the personal staff of General Charles De Gaulle. After the war he was appointed Czechoslovakian Military Attaché for both France & Belgium, but when the communist regime took power in 1948, he accepted a commission in the French Army. In 1950, he became a professor at the Portuguese Insituto de Altos Estudos Militares. In 1955 he returned to France and was posted as a Military Engineer Officer in the French Army Defence Office. He was the author of, among many other works, Blitzkrieg (London, 1941), Paratroops: the history, organization and tactical use of airborne formations (London, 1943), and Atomic Weapons and Armies (London, 1955). He continued to write on politico-military affairs into his dotage, producing widely read and influential works.
£ 150.00
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Ferdinand Otto Miksche (1904-1992), Austrian-born army officer and military theorist. Miksche joined the Czechoslovakian Army in 1927. A veteran of the Spanish Civil War, during which he served with the International Brigades on the side of the Republicans, he held various positions with the Allied Forces during the Second World War. He saw action in France in 1940 and was later attached to Free French forces, serving on the personal staff of General Charles De Gaulle. After the war he was appointed Czechoslovakian Military Attaché for both France & Belgium, but when the communist regime took power in 1948, he accepted a commission in the French Army. In 1950, he became a professor at the Portuguese Insituto de Altos Estudos Militares. In 1955 he returned to France and was posted as a Military Engineer Officer in the French Army Defence Office. He was the author of, among many other works, Blitzkrieg (London, 1941), Paratroops: the history, organization and tactical use of airborne formations (London, 1943), and Atomic Weapons and Armies (London, 1955). He continued to write on politico-military affairs into his dotage, producing widely read and influential works.
