Radetzky

American  

[rah-dets-kee] / rɑˈdɛts ki /

noun

1. Count Joseph 1766–1858, Austrian field marshal.

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Radetzky British  

/ raˈdɛtski /

noun

1. Count Joseph (ˈjoːzɛf). 1766–1858, Austrian field marshal: served in the war against Sardinia (1848–9), winning brilliant victories at Custozza (1848) and Novara (1849): governor of Lombardy-Venetia in N Italy (1849-57)

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Example Sentences

Joseph Roth’s “The Radetzky March,” for the second time.

From New York Times • Mar. 12, 2020

I’m reading Joseph Roth’s “The Radetzky March,” which is full of mourning for the end of the Austro-Hungarian empire—the twilight period before the First World War, and then after.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 2, 2017

Joseph Roth's masterpiece, The Radetzky March, describes this world before the shock of the first world war, and the collapse of the multifarious society, with its rigid rules and habitual pleasures.

From The Guardian • Jan. 25, 2013

Those planning to come to London for the Olympics should read Joseph Roth’s Radetzky March.

From Newsweek • May 21, 2012

Of these discords and hesitations the octogenarian Radetzky took advantage.

From A Short History of Italy (476-1900) by Sedgwick, Henry Dwight