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<DIV>In 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 to abandon the Habsburgs in their hour of need.</div>
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- Author
- John Biggins
- Publisher
- Distributed to the trade by National Book Network, McBooks Press
- Published
- 2005
- 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)
- Otto Prohaska · A Sailor of Austria (1992)
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