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Radetzky

American  
[rah-dets-kee] / rɑˈdɛts ki /

noun

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


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)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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

Roth’s Radetzky March depicts the last sardonic hurrah of Habsburg Austria-Hungary.

From Newsweek May 21, 2012

Radetzky sent Prince Felix Schwarzenberg to Innsbruck to implore the Emperor for permission to continue the combat.

From A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) by Emerson, Edwin

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