8vo. 222pp. Original publisher's red cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. Without dustwrapper. Rubbed and a trifle marked. Scattered spotting. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author to half-title.

The first edition of Austrian-born army officer and military theorist Ferdinand Otto Miksche's (1904-1992) early study of the effect of atomic weaponry on the tactical evolution and organisation of ground forces.