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Author | : John Biggins |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 379 |
Release | : 2005-09-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1590134680 |
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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 | : Palgrave Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780312105341 |
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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 |
Total Pages | : 387 |
Release | : 2007-09-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 159013477X |
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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 | : Georg von Trapp |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2009-01-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780803213500 |
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The Sound of Music endeared Georg von Trapp (1880?1947) and his singing family to the world, and it also showed how desperately the Nazis wanted Captain von Trapp for their navy. In To the Last Salute we learn why. Trapp?s own story of his exploits as a submarine commander during the First World War is as exciting as it is instructive, bringing to stirring life a little-known chapter in the naval history of that war. In his many guises, Trapp describes life as captain of Austro-Hungarian U-boats in the Mediterranean and Adriatic seas, emerging by turn as the Imperial Austrian naval officer, the witty observer of international politics, and the indefatigable and ultimately heartbroken patriot opposing the Allied enemy. He relates deadly duels with submarine sweepers, narrow escapes and excruciatingly close calls, and the spectacular sinking of cargo and war ships?all while maintaining a keen sense of the camaraderie of seamen from every corner of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Trapp?s story, in English for the first time, offers a rare combination of human interest, historical insight, and true life-and-death adventure.
Author | : Nathan Perl-Rosenthal |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 186 |
Release | : 2015-10-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0674915550 |
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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 | : Peter Mauch |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 345 |
Release | : 2020-03-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1684175062 |
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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–U.S. relations. Scholars tend to view his actions and missteps as ambassador as representing the failure of diplomacy to avert the outbreak of hostilities between the two paramount Pacific powers.This extensively researched biography casts new light on the life and career of this important figure. Connecting his experiences as a naval officer to his service as foreign minister and ambassador, and later as “father” of Japan’s Maritime Self Defense Forces and proponent of the U.S.–Japanese alliance, this study reassesses Nomura’s contributions as a hard-nosed realist whose grasp of the underlying realities of Japanese–U.S. relations went largely unappreciated by the Japanese political and military establishment.
Author | : Paul A. Gilje |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 409 |
Release | : 2016-02-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521762359 |
Download To Swear like a Sailor Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book explores American maritime world, including cursing, language, logbooks, storytelling, sailor songs, reading, and material culture.
Author | : John Biggins |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 514 |
Release | : 2021-01-27 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
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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 | : John Biggins |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780749312398 |
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Author | : Luis Coloma |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 504 |
Release | : 1912 |
Genre | : Spain |
ISBN | : |
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