The third book in the acclaimed series featuring Naval Lieutenant Otto Prohaska in the waning years of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Summer 1916 and, as luck would have it, Otto is assigned to the nascent, unreliable and utterly frightening Imperial and Royal Austro-Hungarian Flying Service. On the ground the rickety Habsburg Empire begins to crumble before the onslaught of WWI, while in the air Otto confronts a series of misadventures and the winds of change.