Blitzkrieg
London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1942. Second Edition [stated] Third Impression [stated]. Hardcover. Format is approximately 5.25 inches by 8.25 inches. Cover has some wear and soiling. 249, [3] pages. Contains 37 Diagrams. May be missing front end paper as pagination is 'off' by one sheet (two page numbers). Preface; Introduction by Tom Wintringham; Two Doctrines; The Spanish Laboratory; Thrust and Pocket Tactics; Battle on Narrow Fronts; The Air Arm Over Battle; The Panzer Divisions; Panzers at Work; Tactics of Combat Teams; Artillery Decentralized; Principles of Defence; Islands of Resistance; Web Defence; The Counter-Blitz; Appendix 1; Appendix II; Appendix III; and an Index. This copy once belonged to Lt. Edgar T. Martin, Signal Corps who was assigned to the U.S. Embassy in London in June, 1942. Notation of same on half-title page. Ferdinand Otto Miksche was an officer in the Czechoslovakian Army, the British Army, and ultimately the French Army; and was also a prolific author on politico-military subjects. He attended the (Austro-Hungarian) Imperial Military College, and also the LudovMore. Born in Karvinna, Teschen, Austrian Silesia, 1904; education included the Schiller-Gymnasium, Teschen, Oberrealschule, Kaschau, and the Imperial Military College; enrolled as a Cadet, Ludovika Military Academy, Budapest, Hungary [1924]; conscripted into Czechoslovakian Army [1927]; service as a Reserve Officer in an artillery regiment, Kosice and Mukacevo, Slovakia [1927-1930]; Lt, 1930; served in the International Brigades, Spanish Civil War, Spain, 1936-1939; Capt, 1936; Maj, 1938; commanded artillery battalion, Battle of the Ebro, 1939; served in World War Two, 1939-1945; evacuated from France to UK with Czech Legion, 1940; appointed Capt in the British Army [1940]; service with the Czechoslovak Independent Bde Group, 1940-1941; joined Free French forces as a Maj, 1941; served on personal staff of Free French Brig Gen Charles de Gaulle, and in the Troisième Bureau, assisting in the development for the planned invasion of Normandy, France, 1941-1944; author and military strategist, 1941-1992; awarded French Légion d'Honneur, 1944; Assistant to the Czech Military Mission, and adviser on central European affairs to the Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF), 1945; awarded US Medal of Freedom, 1946; Czechoslovakian Military Attaché, Paris, France, and Brussels, Belgium, 1946-1947; joined French Army, 1948; Lecturer in Tactics, Instituto de Altos Estudos Militares, Caxias, Portugal, 1950-1955; awarded Order of the Portuguese Empire [1955]; In 1955 he went back to France and was posted as a Military Engineer Officer in the French Army Defense Office, DEFA (Direction des Etudes et fabrication d'Armements). He continued to write on politico-military affairs right up to the late 1980s, and his widely read & influential books were eventually published in at least ten different languages. He died in 1992. His papers are held at the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London. Condition: Good.
Keywords: Armored Warfare, Mobility, Panzers, Combat Teams, Spanish Civil War, Military Aviation, Artillery, Echelon, Thrust-point, Military Tactics, Tom Wintringham
[Book #83012]
Price: $55.00