Radetzky

American

[rah-dets-kee] / rɑˈdɛts ki /

noun

Count Joseph 1766–1858, Austrian field marshal.

Radetzky British

/ raˈdɛtski /

noun

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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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

The third-person narrator in The Radetzky March has a cool, precise voice which adds to the tension and mystery.

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

We neither want advice from Metternich, nor battalions from Radetzky.

From The Fortunes Of Glencore by Lever, Charles James

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