The Emperor's Coloured Coat: In Which Otto Prohaska, Hero of the Habsburg Empire, Has an Interesting Time While Not Quite Managing to Avert the First World War (The Otto Prohaska Novels)

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This book follows the hapless Lieutenant Otto Prohaska in the waning years of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and finds Otto taking an ill-considered break from duties to engage in a mad fling with a Polish actress. After a desperate attempt to elude his lover's husband, he finds himself mistaken by anarchists as one of their own. Otto soon masters their code names and secret handshakes, but when he also learns of their plans to assassinate the Archduke Ferdinand in Sarajevo, his duty is clear. He must alert his superiors—now, if only he can find someone who will believe him! Copyright......Page 5 Abbreviations ......Page 7 Place Names ......Page 8 1: Distant Echoes......Page 10 2: A Sailor's Life......Page 18 3: Climbing in Circles......Page 38 4: First Society......Page 55 5: Polish Blood......Page 80 6: Danube Flotilla......Page 105 7: The Pig War......Page 124 8: Union or Death......Page 148 9: Across the Black Mountain......Page 173 10: Fugitives......Page 194 11: The Last Day of Summer......Page 209 12: Out and About in North China......Page 229 13: Stress of Weather......Page 246 14: Night Attack......Page 268 15: Salvation by Grace......Page 287 16: Plane Sailing......Page 306 17: Arabia Felix......Page 320 18: Guests of the Sultan......Page 341 Author Bio......Page 361