# The Radetzky March

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- Book: [The Radetzky March](https://www.bookquiver.com/joseph-roth/the-radetzky-march) ([The Radetzky March.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/joseph-roth/the-radetzky-march.md))
- Authors: [Joseph Roth](https://www.bookquiver.com/joseph-roth)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4139-342-1
- Pages: 368
- Published: 2016-01-28
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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.