Author: Joseph Roth
Publisher: Abrams
ISBN: 1590208447
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 287
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The author’s masterpiece, an epic saga of a family and an empire in decline, is “full of psychological penetration and tragic force” (The New Yorker). The Radetzky March, Joseph Roth’s classic novel of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, follows three generations of the privileged von Trotta family as Europe advances inexorably toward World War I. With a breadth and richness that draws comparison to Tolstoy, it encompasses the entire social fabric of Austro-Hungarian society. Shot through with dark humor and tragic irony, The Radetzky March is an unparalleled portrait of a civilization in decline, and as such a universal story for our times. “A masterpiece . . . The totality of Joseph Roth’s work is no less than a tragédie humaine achieved in the techniques of modern fiction. No other contemporary writer, not excepting Thomas Mann, has come close to achieving the wholeness . . . that Lukács cites as our impossible aim.” —Nadine Gordimer
Author: Alan Sked
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0857719173
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 296
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History remembers Wellington's defeat of Napoleon, but has forgotten the role of Field Marshal Radetzky in the battles which led to Napoleon's abdication and first exile in 1814. As Chief of Staff to the allied coalition of 1813-14, Radetzky determined the shape of the most decisive campaigns of the Napoleonic Wars by creating the strategy that defeated the Corsican in Germany and then France. Neither Russia nor Prussia had been able to overcome Napoleon in battle and it took the brilliant diplomacy of Metternich and the military genius of Radetzky to ensure victory over the Emperor. In short, the Austrian contribution decisively tipped the balance against Napoleon - a fact which has always been overlooked by historians. It was Radetzky, too, at the age of eighty-two, who defeated the Italians in 1848 and 1849 and thus saved Europe once again from the prospect of international war and revolution. The wars Radetzky fought - and won - throughout his extensive military career were of the greatest possible significance in European history, yet today, he is almost forgotten - remembered only in the music of the Radetzky March, dedicated to him by Johann Strauss the elder. In this, the first biography of Radetzky to be published in English, Alan Sked paints a vivid picture of an exceptional, yet neglected commander of genius in a book which will be fascinating reading for enthusiasts of military and modern European history.
Author: Joseph Roth
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393051674
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 236
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"[Joseph Roth] is now recognized as one of the twentieth century's great writers." --Anthony Heilbut, Los Angeles Times Book Review
Author: Joseph Roth
Publisher:
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 330
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The Radetzky March, Joseph Roth's classic saga of the privileged von Trotta family, encompasses the entire social fabric of the Austro-Hungarian Empire just before World War I. The author's greatest achievement, The Radetzky March is an unparalleled portrait of a civilization in decline, and as such, a universal story for our times.
Author: Adolf von Horsetzky
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Category : Battles
Languages : en
Pages : 538
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Author: George Macaulay Trevelyan
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Category : Italy
Languages : en
Pages : 354
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Author: Charles Walker Robinson
Publisher: London : Encyclopaedia Britannica
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 290
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Category : Polish Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 828
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Author: Olǵa Alekseevna Novikova
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Languages : en
Pages : 600
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Languages : en
Pages : 642
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