£150
From the Ferdinand Otto Miksche collection.
Midcentury autograph album containing typewritten letter from Dwight Eisenhower dated 1942 addressed to Captain Ferdinand Otto Miksche from the Headquarters European Theater, United States Army during WWII. Eisenhower was Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force during the Second World War; the letter thanks Miksche for sending and autographing a copy of his book.
Autograph book also includes signatures from Guy Salisbury Jones at Buckingham Palace, James M. Gavin, Alfred M. Gruenther and other military and political figures. With assorted letters including from Otto von Habsburg and Lauris Norstad.
Miksche (1904-1992) was a Czech Captain and military historian, awarded the Medal of Freedom and Order of the Colonial Empire, and the author of a number of works on European military history. (1 bag)
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