The Radetzky March

Download or read book The Radetzky March written by Joseph Roth and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2000-12-07 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strauss's Radetzky March, signature tune of one of Europe's most powerful regimes, presides over Joseph Roth's account of three generations of the Trotta family in the years preceding the Austro-Hungarian collapse in 1918. Grandfather, son and grandson are equally dependent on the empire: the first for his enoblement; the second for the civil virtues that make him a meticulous servant of an administration whose failure he can neither comprehend nor survive; the third for the family standards of conduct which he cannot attain but against which he is too enfeebled to rebel.