About the book: 2017 / In mid-1916, Otto Prochazka was removed from command of a submarine on suspicion of torpedoing a German submarine and sent as an aviation gunner-observer to the Italian front. Considering the imperfection of the aircraft of that time and the intensity of combat operations in difficult mountainous terrain for flying, where mountains are often higher than the maximum flight altitude of an airplane, and anti-aircraft guns sometimes fire from above, this “business trip” could easily be equated to the death penalty. And indeed, only by miracle did our hero manage to avoid death several times. This is perhaps the most “military” of the books in the series, containing many convincing details about military operations on this almost forgotten front of the First World War, as well as about the “childhood” years of combat aviation. Indescribable humor against the backdrop of real historical events.