![]() ![]() It is known that he studied at Lemberg (now Lviv, Ukraine) and Vienna and then served in the Austrian army from 1916 to 1918. 2, 1894, Brody, Galicia, Austria-Hungary – died May 27, 1939, Paris, France), was a Jewish journalist and regional novelist who, particularly in his later novels, mourned the passing of an age of stability he saw represented by the last pre-World War I years of the Habsburg empire of Austria-Hungary.ĭetails about Roth’s early years, religious beliefs, and personal life are little known Roth himself made a practice of concealing or transforming such biographical information. (description taken from Granta Books) About the Author A rich and luminous masterpiece, moving, compassionate, witty and dramatic, The Radetzky March is one of the great reading pleasures of 20th-century literature. Theirs is a sweeping history of heroism and duty, desire and compromise, tragedy and heartbreak, a story that lasts until the darkening eve of World War I, when all is set to fall apart. ![]() Set during the doomed splendor of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, The Radetzky March tells the story of the celebrated Trotta family, tracing their rise and fall over three generations. ![]()
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