8vo. 317pp, [3]. Original publisher's red cloth, lettered in black to spine, printed paper dustwrapper. Very minor shelf-wear, dustwrapper a trifle creased and marked. Internally clean and crisp. Presentation copy, ink inscription to half-title: 'To my darling Olga, a hard work of three years, Daddy Paris. 1. XII. 75'.

The first edition of Austrian-born army officer and military theorist Ferdinand Otto Miksche's (1904-1992) authoritative treatise on the technological development of modern warfare.