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The Radetzky March

2002-08-01 Fiction
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Release : 2002-08-01
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 447/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Radetzky March by : Joseph Roth

Download or read book The Radetzky March written by Joseph Roth. This book was released on 2002-08-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

What I Saw

2003 History
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Release : 2003
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 674/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis What I Saw by : Joseph Roth

Download or read book What I Saw written by Joseph Roth. This book was released on 2003. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[Joseph Roth] is now recognized as one of the twentieth century's great writers." --Anthony Heilbut, Los Angeles Times Book Review

Radetzky

2010-12-08 Biography & Autobiography
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Release : 2010-12-08
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 173/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Radetzky by : Alan Sked

Download or read book Radetzky written by Alan Sked. This book was released on 2010-12-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Wandering Jew

2016-10-18 History
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Release : 2016-10-18
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 311/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Wandering Jew by : Dennis Marks

Download or read book Wandering Jew written by Dennis Marks. This book was released on 2016-10-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joseph Roth, best known as the author of the novel The Radetzky March and the nonfiction work The Wandering Jews, was one of the most seductive, disturbing, and enigmatic writers of the twentieth century. Born in 1894 in the Habsburg Empire in what is now Ukraine and dying in Paris in 1939, he was a perpetually displaced person, a traveler, a prophet, a compulsive liar, and a man who covered his tracks. Throughout the eastern borderlands of Europe, Dennis Marks explores the spiritual geography of a still-neglected master and uncovers the truth about Roth’s lost world.

Joseph Roth: A Life in Letters

2012-01-16 Biography & Autobiography
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Release : 2012-01-16
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 640/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Joseph Roth: A Life in Letters written by Joseph Roth. This book was released on 2012-01-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tumultuous life of the Austrian writer best known for "The Radetzky March" is described through letters that recall his father's and wife's mental illnesses, numerous mistresses, and travel to Paris.

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