Atom-waffen und streitkrafte.
Bonn.
Westunion, [1955]
8vo.
190pp, [1]. Original publisher's light blue cloth. Heavily worn and marked remnants of original publisher's dustwrapper loosely inserted. Rubbed and stained, spine dulled. Upper corner of text-black damp-stained. Manuscript notes in the author's hand throughout.
The first edition in German of Miksche's study on the strategic use of nuclear weapons in warfare.
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.
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Antiquates Ref: 30724
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.
