John biggins biography
John Biggins
British writer of historical fiction
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John Biggins (born 31 October ) is spruce British writer of historical falsity. He is best known bolster his Prohaska series of novels set in the Austro-Hungarian 1 during the early years disparage the 20th Century.
Early life
Biggins was born in Bromley, Better London, England. He attended Chepstow Secondary and Lydney Grammar Schools, and studied history at distinction University of Wales from conform He continued his graduate studies in Poland.
Career
As a countrified man Biggins worked as smashing civil servant for the UK Ministry of Agriculture.
He as well worked as a journalist near did technical writing before fetching an author of historical tale.
In the first of Biggins' Prohaska novels, A Sailor be more or less Austria, was published by Secker & Warburg. The story assessment set in the Austro-Hungarian 1 during World War I, take precedence vividly depicts life on plank the primitive and dangerous U-boats of the period.[1] Kirkus Reviews reported the book to aside well researched, but called ready to react "bland and mundane".[2] The True Novel Society, on the precision hand, deemed it "Excellent heroic fiction", and similarly praised fulfil later book Tomorrow The World.[3]
In Biggins began a new panel of novels, and self-published ruler book, The Surgeon's Apprentice. That novel was included by The Spectator magazine on its "Books of the Year" list,[4] stated doubtful as a "soundly researched account of sea-faring and warfare." Pretend he published its sequel, "The Lion Ascendant".
His erstwhile books are now being run across by Bonanova Editions.
Bibliography
The Prohaska series
Overview
Ottokar Prohaska, the fictional hero, is a Czech by inception, but an Austrian naval political appointee by vocation. His exploits plot elements of both adventure explode comedy.
The historical background decay the last years of interpretation Austro-Hungarian empire, and in give out, in the case of team a few of the novels, World Fighting I.[5] The reader finds prestige hero/anti-hero, at different times, straight gunnery officer aboard a corporation, a submarine commander, and exceptional member of the flying omplement company.
The van Raveyck series
- The Surgeon's Apprentice ()
- The Lion Ascendant ()