The Radetzky March

“Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations, that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!” Isaiah 17:12 Empires rise and fall… Dynasties appear and dissipate… The Radetzky March is a story about a perishment of both an e......more

“That was how things were back then. Anything that grew took its time growing, and anything that perished took a long time to be forgotten. But everything that had once existed left its traces, and people lived on memories just as they now live on the ability to forget quickly and emphatically.”......more

«...και αν το εμβατήριο Ραντέτσκυ χαρακτηρίστηκε ως [η Μασσαλιώτιδα του συντηρητισμού], ο συντηρητισμός του Ροτ έχει μια γεύση γλυκιά και πικρή ταυτόχρονα, μια γεύση που δεν αφήνει κανέναν ασυγκίνητο». Αυτό το λογοτεχνικό αριστούργημα του 20ου αιώνα γράφτηκε στις αρχές της δεκαετίας του 1930. Πραγμα......more

4.5 stars This classic tale of the end of an era, the decline of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the start of the Great War, is one that deserves a time of reflection after reading the last page. It’s not a tome by any means, coming in at less than 400 pages, but it is nearly epic in scope when one c......more

I want to single out The Radetzky March as my favorite book of 2011. It is the story of the fall of the Austrian Empire as reflected in the fortunes of the Trotta family through three generations. Our story largely centers around young Carl Joseph von Trotta of the third generation and his father, t......more