Liddell Hart, B HBiblio.com
LIDDELL HART, B HBiblio.com
Thoughts on War.
1944188104London: Faber and Faber Ltd 1944. First edition warmly inscribed on the front free endpaper "To F. O. Miksche in friendship and admiration - for his own zealous and stimulating thought on war from Basil Liddell Hart" and with a number of marginal markings presumably by Mikscke. Brian Bond describes Thoughts on War as one of Liddell Hart's "most self-revealing and interesting books." A prolific and influential writer on politico-military affairs Ferdinand Otto Miksche 1904-1992 attended the Imperial Military College in Vienna and the Ludovika Military Academy in Budapest. After service in the Czech army he joined the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War. Forced to flee Czechoslovakia at the onset of the war he held various posts with the Allies serving for some time on De Gaulle's personal staff. In 1945 he became advisor to SHAEF on central European affairs and was appointed Czechoslovakian Military Attaché to both France and Belgium until the communist regime took power in Czechoslovakia in 1948 when he accepted a commission in the French army. He continued writing into the late 1980s. Liddell Hart contributed the preface to his Paratroops: The History Organization and Tactical Use of Airborne Formations 1943. Octavo. Original black cloth rebacked with the original gilt-lettered spine laid down. A few marks to covers. inner hinge cracked at last spread of index. general peripheral toning. A good copy. Brian Bond Liddell Hart: A Study of His Military Thought 1991. hardcover
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