Misc: 'Contra Seversky': review article of Capt Ferdinand Otto Miksche's book, Is bombing decisive?

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0099 KCLMA MISC 1
Held at	: Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.kingscollections.org/catalogues/lhcma ›
Full title	: Misc: 'Contra Seversky': review article of Capt Ferdinand Otto Miksche's book, Is bombing decisive?
Date(s)	: 1943-1944
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 1 file
Name of creator(s)	: Inter Avia, [Swiss aviation journal]

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Lt Col Ferdinand Otto Miksche, 11 Apr 1904-23 Dec 1992, was a soldier and a diplomat, an expert in central European politics, a military strategist, and a prolific writer on military affairs. Miksche's reputation as a military theorist flourished with the publication of Blitzkrieg (Faber and Faber, London, 1941) and Is bombing decisive? (Allen and Unwin, London, 1943). In London, he was a staff officer with Gen Charles André Joseph Marie De Gaulle's Free French forces and a regular military commentator for the London Times. His book Is bombing decisive?, or Contra Seversky as it was known in the United States, attracted attention in Britain and the United States due to its condemnation of the air power theories of Russian-American author Maj Alexander Prokofiev Seversky.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Typescript copy of a review article of Capt Ferdinand Otto Mikshe's book Is bombing decisive? or Contra Seversky, as it was known in the United States, originally published on 16 Oct 1943 in the Swiss journal Inter Avia, and subsequently copied by the Ministry of Aircraft Production, possibly for the inter-servcies journal, Aircraft Recognition, 22 May 1944

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

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Conditions governing access:

Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, attention of the Director of Archive Services

Finding aids:

Summary guide entry on-line at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/top.htm, and available in hard copy in the Centre's reading room

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Presented to the Centre in 1965 by the Department of Manuscripts, British Museum via Professor Michael Howard, Department of War Studies, King's College, London

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Date of compilation: Oct 1999