Two photocopy manuscripts of F. O. Miksche's final work, 'Da...

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Two photocopy manuscripts of F. O. Miksche's final work, 'Das Ende der Gegenwart', or 'The End of the Present', a political study of modern Europe c1990. The work was published in Munich, and this manuscript was produced for the French publication: however, the work was not well received by French publishers and was never printed. (2)

Ferdinand Otto Miksche was a Lt Colonel in the French Amy and the holder of the French Legion D'honneur. Born in Austria he became and Officer in the Czech Army and in 1945 the Czech Military attache in Paris. He spent time in England with De Gaulle at the time of establishing the Free French Forces. He returned to France with De Gaulle and became a French citizen and the Lt Colonel on the Foreign Legion. Miksche spent 8 years in Portugal in the 1950s and received their highest honour (Order of the Portuguese Empire) for his work teaching in the Military academy in Caxias. In later years he was a frequent  guest on German TV and became a liason attache to Strauss and the Bavarian Government.