8vo. 432pp. Original publisher's brown cloth, lettered in black to spine, printed paper dustwrapper. Very minor shelf-wear, dustwrapper lightly creased and marked. Internally clean and crisp. Presentation copy, ink inscription to title page: 'To my darling daughter Olga C. Clark from her loving Daddy Paris, 15.1.1984'.

The first edition of Austrian-born army officer and military theorist Ferdinand Otto Miksche's (1904-1992) treatise on the politico-military successes and failures of the Soviet Union.