£150
A mid 20th Century 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.
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.
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