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Georg von Trapp: To the Last Salute: Memories of an Austrian U-Boat Commander. Translated by Elizabeth M. Campbell. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007. ISBN 978-0-8032-4667-6. Map. Photographs. Diagram. Notes. Pp. xxviii, 192. $21.95.
Elizabeth Campbell, the granddaughter of the famous Georg von Trapp of The Sound of Music fame, has provided readers of naval history and popular culture something of great utility, and great fun: an English translation of her famous ancestor's World War I memoir. Most of us are familiar with the portrayal of the father of the singing Trapp family as a stern, formal naval officer, but may not be aware that he was the Austro-Hungarian navy's most successful U-boat commander. Trapp's memoir has been available in German and a French translation...