Kapitulation ohne Krieg: Die Jahre 1970-1980

[Stuttgart]: Seewald, [1965]. 258pp, [2]. Original publisher's black cloth, lettered in red to spine, printed paper dustwrapper. Very minor shelf-wear, dustwrapper lightly marked and creased. Internally clean and crisp. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author to half-title. The first edition of Miksche's innovative treatise on probable future Western defence policies. 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 tactics (London, 1942), 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. . First edition. 8vo.