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In which, without really going to, Otto Prohaska becomes standard conflict hero no. 27 of the Habsburg empire. "A vintage techno-adventure history that falls somewhere between Tom Clancy and Patrick O'Brian... top notch armed service fiction with a literary flair." (Web publishers Weekly) In the spring and coil of 1915, a young Austro-Czech naval lieutenant Ottokar Prohaska detects himself put up to the minuscule Imperial and Royal Austro-Hungarian Submarine Service in the Adriatic interface of Pola. In some trepidation at first, because he does not have any experience whatever of submarines, his worries are soon establish at rest when he discovers that nobody else has either: least of all his superiors. There follow three . 5 many years of desperate World War One adventures fighting for the House of Habsburg aboard primitive, ill-equipped vessels, contending not merely with exploding lavatories and the transport of Libyan racing camels but with a crew drawn from twelve different nationalities-and a decaying imperial bureaucracy which frequently appears to be even more of an enemy than the British, the French, the Italians and the sea itself. After surmounting all of this to be - accidentally - Austria Hungary's leading U-boat commander and a holder of its highest armed service decoration, the closing calendar months of 1918 see him and his team coming back aboard a damaged vessel from the shores of Palestine, and then find that the homeland they may have fought for so doggedly over the prior four years is currently in the ultimate stages of collapse, and they themselves are effectively stateless persons; sailors without a navy time for a country which no more has a coastline. "Fresh, brilliant, and without peer in today's market." (Booklist) "Stark realism and finely crafted laughter.... Biggins's use of narration, his in depth knowledge of the Adriatic, and good specialized detail make this... engaging reading." (Library Journal)
