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"A retro techno-adventure story that falls somewhere between Tom Clancy and Patrick O'Brian... top notch military fiction with a literary flair." (*Publishers Weekly*) In the spring of 1915, a young Austro-Czech naval lieutenant Ottokar Prohaska finds himself posted to the minuscule Imperial and Royal Austro-Hungarian Submarine Service in the Adriatic port of Pola. In some trepidation at first, because he has no experience whatever of submarines, his fears are soon set at rest when he discovers that nobody else has either: least of all his superiors. There follow three and a half years of desperate World War One adventures fighting for the House of Habsburg aboard primitive, ill-equipped vessels, contending not just with exploding lavatories and the transport of Libyan racing camels but with a crew drawn from a dozen different nationalities-and a decaying imperial bureaucracy which often seems to be even more of an enemy than the British, the French, the Italians and the sea itself. After surmounting all this to become - accidentally - Austria Hungary's leading U-boat commander and a holder of its highest military decoration, the closing months of 1918 see him and his crew returni
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- Author
- Biggins, John
- Publisher
- McBooks Press ; Distributed to the trade by National Book Network
- Published
- 1992
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781590131077
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humor
- Rating
- 4.27 / 5 (263 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
Other editions & translations
- A Sailor of Austria: In Which, Without Really Intending to, Otto Prohaska Becomes Official War Hero No. 27 of the Habsburg Empire (The Otto Prohaska Novels) (1991)
- A Sailor of Austria: In Which, Without Really Intending to, Otto Prohaska Becomes Official War Hero No. 27 of the Habsburg Empire (The Otto Prohaska Novels) (2005)
- A sailor of Austria : a novel (1991)
- A sailor of Austria: in which, without really intending to, Otto Prohanska becomes Official War Hero No. 27 of the Hapsburg Empire (2005)
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