A memoir written by Georg von Trapp and originally published in Salzburg in 1935. Thanks to "The Sound of Music", the story of the Trapp family's escape from the Nazis in 1938 is the stuff of legend. However, little is known in this country about the family's aristocratic patriarch: his role as a highly decorated commander of World War I submarines, and his heroism on the high seas. Elizabeth Campbell, Georg's granddaughter, has painstakingly translated that story from German to English. The result is an absorbing tale of military life in the arcane world of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.