Radetzky March (novel)
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Radetzky March is a 1932 family saga novel by Joseph Roth chronicling the decline and fall of the Habsburg Monarchy via the story of the Trotta family. Radetzkymarsch is an early example of a story th
First edition 1932
Portrait of Franz Joseph I by Franz Xaver Winterhalter, 1864. Franz Joseph in the uniform of Austrian field marshal.
The novel's namesake, Josef Graf Radetzky von Radetz.
Composer Johann Strauss I, ca. 1837.
The Emperor's Tomb
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The Emperor's Tomb is a 1938 novel by the Austrian writer Joseph Roth. The Overlook Press published an English translation by John Hoare in 1984. The title refers to the Imperial Crypt in Vienna. The
Radetzky March (novel)
…in this case the Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria (1830–1916). Roth continues his account of the Trotta family to the time of the Anschluss in his The Emperor's Tomb (Kapuzinergruft, 1938). The novel, which covers the period from 1859 to 1916, has been published in English translations by Geoffrey Dunlop in 1933…
The Emperor's Tomb book cover