This book PDF is perfect for those who love Fiction genre, written by John Biggins and published by McBooks Press which was released on 26 April 2024 with total hardcover pages 375. You could read this book directly on your devices with pdf, epub and kindle format, check detail and related A Sailor of Austria books below.
| Author | : John Biggins |
| File Size | : 42,9 Mb |
| Publisher | : McBooks Press |
| Language | : English |
| Release Date | : 26 April 2024 |
| ISBN | : 159013107X |
| Pages | : 375 pages |
In a historical novel about the last days of the seldom discussed Austrian empire, a 101-year-old former sailor in the Austro-Hungarian Navy narrates this fascinating journey into the past, focusing particular attention on World War I. Original.
In a historical novel about the last days of the seldom discussed Austrian empire, a 101-year-old former sailor in the Austro-Hungarian Navy narrates this fascinating journey into the past, focusing particular attention on World War I. Original.
Get BookIn this ironic, hilarious, and poignant story, Otto Prohaska is a submarine captain serving the almost-landlocked Austro-Hungarian Empire. He faces a host of unlikely circumstances, from petrol poisoning to exploding lavatories to trigger-happy Turks. All signs point to the total collapse of the bloated empire he serves, but Otto refuses
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A 101-year-old survivor of the Imperial and Royal Austro-Hungarian Navy shares his fascinating reminiscences, in a novel of World War I naval adventure. A first novel.
Get BookLaced with smart humor, this naval tale follows the early career of Lieutenant Otto Prohaska, a cadet in the Austro–Hungarian Navy at the turn of the century. Bad luck continues to shadow Otto, and when a fellow cadet breaks his leg, Otto must take his place on a scientific
Get BookThis book follows the hapless Lieutenant Otto Prohaska in the waning years of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and finds Otto taking an ill-considered break from duties to engage in a mad fling with a Polish actress. After a desperate attempt to elude his lover's husband, he finds himself mistaken by anarchists
Get BookIt is the summer of 1916 and, as luck would have it, Otto is assigned to the nascent, unreliable, and utterly frightening Imperial and Royal Austro-Hungarian Flying Service. Ottto's aerial chauffeur is the self-willed Sergeant-Pilot Toth, with whom he can only communicate in broken Latin—although when all else fails, screaming
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