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Author: John Biggins Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 1590134680 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 379
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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.
Author: John Biggins Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 1590134680 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 379
Book Description
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.
Author: John Biggins Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan ISBN: 9780312105341 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 369
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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.
Author: John Biggins Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 159013477X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 387
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Laced 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 expedition bound for disaster. But even sinister quack scientists, a misguided attempt to establish a colony in Africa, and angry South Sea cannibals bent on destruction cannot keep Otto from fulfilling his patriotic duty.
Author: Paul A. Gilje Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 0521762359 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 409
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This book explores American maritime world, including cursing, language, logbooks, storytelling, sailor songs, reading, and material culture.
Author: Nathan Perl-Rosenthal Publisher: Harvard University Press ISBN: 0674915550 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 186
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In the decades after the United States formally declared its independence in 1776, Americans struggled to gain recognition of their new republic and their rights as citizens. None had to fight harder than the nation’s seamen, whose labor took them far from home and deep into the Atlantic world. Citizen Sailors tells the story of how their efforts to become American at sea in the midst of war and revolution created the first national, racially inclusive model of United States citizenship. Nathan Perl-Rosenthal immerses us in sailors’ pursuit of safe passage through the ocean world during the turbulent age of revolution. Challenged by British press-gangs and French privateersmen, who considered them Britons and rejected their citizenship claims, American seamen demanded that the U.S. government take action to protect them. In response, federal leaders created a system of national identification documents for sailors and issued them to tens of thousands of mariners of all races—nearly a century before such credentials came into wider use. Citizenship for American sailors was strikingly ahead of its time: it marked the federal government’s most extensive foray into defining the boundaries of national belonging until the Civil War era, and the government’s most explicit recognition of black Americans’ equal membership as well. This remarkable system succeeded in safeguarding seafarers, but it fell victim to rising racism and nativism after 1815. Not until the twentieth century would the United States again embrace such an inclusive vision of American nationhood.
Author: John Biggins Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 514
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Born on Christmas Day 1610 in a Flanders cowshed, Frans Michielszoon van Raveyck grows up to become one of the most singular minds of the 17th century: surgeon, inventor, engineer, explorer, astrologer and proto-scientist, employed at various times - and with somewhat mixed results - in the service of most of the kings of Christendom.This first volume of his biography takes us from his humble nativity through his family's flight to England, his apprenticeship as a surgeon there, and finally to his involvement aboard a Dutch warship in the disastrous naval expedition to Cadiz in the autumn of 1625; an enterprise regarded by connoisseurs of incompetence as the worst-conducted military operation in Britain's entire history. Which young Frans, however, observing the chaos around him, attributes to the expedition having neglected to take a good astrologer along with it..."John Biggins is the author of a wry and fascinating tetralogy of novels... The Surgeon's Apprentice is another soundly researched tale... it makes for a good yarn." - The Spectator, Books of the Year 2010
Author: Peter Cameron Mauch Publisher: Harvard University Press ISBN: 9780674055995 Category : Admirals Languages : en Pages : 354
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As Japan's pre-Pearl Harbor ambassador to the United States, Admiral Nomura Kichisaburo (1877-1964) played a significant role in a tense and turbulent period in Japanese-US relations. This biography casts light on the life and career of this important figure.
Author: Nicholas Monsarrat Publisher: House of Stratus ISBN: 9780755131273 Category : Languages : en Pages : 500
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The highly acclaimed 'Cruel Sea' is one of the all-time great naval and war thrillers. The film was a smash hit when released and it and the book continue to enjoy undiminished popularity. It covers the battle of the Atlantic and the people who fought it - their domestic triumphs, tragedies, worries and ambitions.
Author: Jennifer Bowers Bahney Publisher: McFarland ISBN: 1476630445 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 231
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Born into one of 19th century Europe's more powerful families, Archduchess Marie Valerie was the favorite daughter of Austria's Emperor Franz Joseph and Empress Elisabeth. Determined to marry for love, in 1890 she wed her cousin, Franz Salvator of Tuscany and bore him 10 children. The dashing Archduke was not faithful. His affair with Stephanie Richter, a young, middle-class Jewish woman with a knack for flattering powerful men, led to an illegitimate child, a royal title of her own and a career as a double-agent in the prelude to World War II. Princess Stephanie von Hohenlohe became vital to Adolf Hitler, betraying the German Jews, the British government, and her home country of Austria--until Hitler betrayed her, leaving her without allies or protectors.
Author: John Biggins
Author: John Biggins
Author: John Biggins
Author: John Biggins
Author: John Biggins
Author: Paul A. Gilje
Author: Nathan Perl-Rosenthal
Author: John Biggins
Author: Peter Cameron Mauch
Author: Nicholas Monsarrat
Author: Jennifer Bowers Bahney