The Radetzky March
  • Published: 1 March 2016
  • ISBN: 9780141393421
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 368
  • RRP: $24.99
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The Radetzky March

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8 Jun 2001
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1 Mar 2016
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15 Nov 1996
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The sweeping twentieth-century masterpiece of war, idealism and the inglorious end of an empire

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.
  • Published: 1 March 2016
  • ISBN: 9780141393421
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 368
  • RRP: $24.99
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Praise for The Radetzky March

Roth is Austria's Chekhov

William Boyd

One of the greatest novels written in the last century

Allan Massie

One of the most readable, poignant, and superb novels in twentieth-century German: it stands with the best of Thomas Mann, Alfred Döblin, and Robert Musil. Roth was a cultural monument of Galician Jewry: ironic, compassionate, perfectly pitched to his catastrophic era

Harold Bloom

A masterpiece . . . The totality of Joseph Roth's work is no less than a tragédie humaine achieved in the techniques of modern fiction

Nadine Gordimer

The best novel is a book that, to my shame, I have only just read. Visiting Vienna earlier in the year, I realised how little I knew about the Austro-Hungarian empire. So I read Joseph Roth's 1932 book The Radetzky March (Penguin Classics) and, as soon as I finished reading it, I read it all over again.

Chris Patten, New Statesman