Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    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 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 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
    Audiobook13 hours

    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

    Written by John Biggins

    Narrated by Nigel Patterson

    5/5

    ()

    About this audiobook

    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!

    “Stark realism and finely crafted humor . . . use of narration, his thorough knowledge, and good technical details make this novel compelling reading.”  —Library Journal

    “Biggins writes with a fine sense of the sea and a truly marvelous wit.”  —Booklist
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMcBooks Press
    Release dateDec 15, 2017
    ISBN9781590137505
    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

    More audiobooks from John Biggins

    Related to The Emperor's Coloured Coat

    Related audiobooks

    Historical Fiction For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Commentary: I Was An Army Grunt At The Pointy End Of The American Spear. But No Longer

      Apr 5, 2019

      I'm one of the lucky ones. Leaving the madness of U.S. Army life with a modest pension and all of my limbs intact feels like a genuine escape. Both the Army and I knew it was time for me to go. I'd tired of carrying water for empire and they'd grown

      3 min read

    • Article

      Road To Waterloo Quatre Bras

      Aug 5, 2021

      In June 1815, Napoleon Bonaparte launched one of the most dramatic campaigns in military history. Fought in what is now Belgium, his efforts ended in a decisive defeat at Waterloo – a battle that ended the Napoleonic Wars and changed the course of Eu

      10 min read

    • Article

      Taken By Surprise

      Jan 17, 2018

      Taken By Surprise
      5 min read

    • Article

      Taken By Surprise

      Oct 16, 2018

      Taken By Surprise
      5 min read

    • Article

      Churchill’s Boer Commandos

      Dec 27, 2019

      Churchill’s Boer Commandos
      7 min read

    • Article

      Bingeworthy Holiday Reads

      Dec 27, 2019

      When Harry Bosch was just a rookie detective, his mentor, John Jack Thompson, taught him to take his work personally and relentlessly seek the truth in every case. When Thompson dies, his widow gives Bosch a murder book that contains details about th

      2 min read

    • Article

      Fiction

      Sep 2, 2022

      Fiction
      3 min read

    • Article

      A Poet for the Age of Brexit

      Sep 12, 2017

      A Poet for the Age of Brexit
      6 min read

    • Article

      Books Of The Month

      Nov 4, 2022

      Eastbound by Maylis de Kerangal, translated by Jessica Moore In this timely novella about a Russian military conscript defecting from the army, 20-year-old Aliocha is on the Trans-Siberian railway from Moscow to Vladivostok. When he gets there, he pl

      2 min read

    • Article

      Enough To Go On

      Sep 19, 2021

      Enough To Go On
      2 min read

    • Article

      The World And All That It Holds

      Apr 5, 2023

      Picador,352pp£18.99 The title is clearly not misleading: ‘majestic’, ‘epic’ and ‘immense’ are just some of the adjectives used to describe this book, with Lucy Hughes-Hallett in the Guardian adding that she would be ‘surprised if [she enjoyed] a nove

      1 min read

    • Article

      Fiction

      Feb 3, 2023

      Fiction
      3 min read

    • Article

      Where Belief Is Lost and Found and Lost Again: Vedran Husić’s ‘Basements and Other Museums’

      Oct 25, 2018

      Every once in a while, a short story collection comes around that requires slow sipping—stories that silence you in the lamplight or make you pause, watch the outside daylife without really seeing it because you are still immersed in the world of the

      4 min read

    • Article

      New Year, New Books

      Jan 11, 2021

      New Year, New Books
      5 min read

    • Article

      Illicit Love And The Savagery Of Self-loathing

      Apr 11, 2022

      There has been much discourse in the literary press recently about the perceived inability of young male novelists to break through. Be it because young men aren’t attracted to such a precarious profession any more, or that the industry doesn’t have

      2 min read

    • Article

      Edward Wilson

      Dec 3, 2020

      Edward Wilson immigrated to the UK from America after serving in the Vietnam War. After his teaching career ended, he became the author of eight highly acclaimed books, including the Catesby spy thrillers as well as standalones. ‘Portrait of the Spy

      6 min read

    • Article

      Books Of The Month

      Feb 4, 2022

      The Memory Monster by Yishai Sarid, translated by Yardenne Greenspan “This is where the illusion we call humankind was erased,” a guide to Holocaust sites tells the visitors on his tour. He is so steeped in its history that he has become corrupted b

      2 min read

    • Article

      Russian Roulette

      Feb 1, 2021

      As a longterm fan of Dostoevsky (and yes, unusually for a 19th century literary novelist, he does have a kind of fan club, many of whom are adolescents high on the thrill of first encountering his freewheeling combo of philosophical pondering and jaz

      2 min read

    • Article

      “Where Poetry Comes From”

      Sep 1, 2020

      This is what power really is: the privilege of ignoring anything you might find distasteful. —Oksana Zabuzhko “Language, any language,” observed the young poet Oksana Zabuzhko, “is the capital love of my life” because “nothing else has the power to s

      11 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for The Emperor's Coloured Coat

    5/5

    11 ratings1 review

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

    • 5/5
      It is a truly wonderful book! Great author and great narrator.