Attack: A Study Of Blitzkrieg Tactics

by F.O. Miksche, Tom Wintringham (Introduction)

"" A Study of Blitzkrieg Tactics"" is a military strategy book written by F.O. Miksche. The book explores the concept of Blitzkrieg, a lightning-fast military tactic used by Nazi Germany during World War II, which involved the use of tanks, air power, and infantry to quickly overwhelm enemy forces. The author provides a detailed analysis of the Blitzkrieg strategy, including its origins, key principles, and successful implementation in various battles. The book also highlights the weaknesses and limitations of Blitzkrieg, and how it was eventually overcome by the Allies. This book is essential reading for military historians, strategists, and anyone interested in the tactics and strategies used in modern warfare.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

Genres: Military History

292 pages, Hardcover

First published March 1, 2007

About the author

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 Ludovika Military Academy in Budapest; he began his service with the Czechoslovakian Army in 1927. After serving with the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War, he returned to Czechoslovakia. He escaped his fallen country at the end of the 1930s, and spent WWII in various positions with the Allied Forces. He served for some time during the war on the personal staff of General de Brigade Charles De Gaulle, and became advisor on central European affairs to SHAEF in 1945. After the war, he was appointed Czechoslovakian Military Attaché for both France & Belgium, but after the communist regime took power in Czechoslovakia 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 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.

Reviews

[Christopher · Rating 4 out of 5]

A fascinating book if only because it's a snapshot of one precise moment in time, 1942, when German panzer tactics had become clear but not yet fully evolved and heavy tanks weren't yet in play. Really interesting in view of other armies' tank and mechanization doctrine coming into (and in the early years of) the war.

(I read the 1942 Random House edition, which isn't listed here on GoodReads. It has some fantastic infographics, worthy of Tufte!)