“It is a curiously moving experience, to hear 350 sailors uttering the words "Oh shit!" in eleven different languages.”
John Biggins
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
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