The Radetzky March

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Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1590208447
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (92 download)

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Book Synopsis The Radetzky March by : Joseph Roth

Download or read book The Radetzky March written by Joseph Roth and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2002-08-01 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author’s masterpiece, an epic saga of a family and an empire in decline, is “full of psychological penetration and tragic force” (The New Yorker). The Radetzky March, Joseph Roth’s classic novel of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, follows three generations of the privileged von Trotta family as Europe advances inexorably toward World War I. With a breadth and richness that draws comparison to Tolstoy, it encompasses the entire social fabric of Austro-Hungarian society. Shot through with dark humor and tragic irony, The Radetzky March is an unparalleled portrait of a civilization in decline, and as such a universal story for our times. “A masterpiece . . . The totality of Joseph Roth’s work is no less than a tragédie humaine achieved in the techniques of modern fiction. No other contemporary writer, not excepting Thomas Mann, has come close to achieving the wholeness . . . that Lukács cites as our impossible aim.” —Nadine Gordimer

Radetzky

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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857719173
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)

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Book Synopsis Radetzky by : Alan Sked

Download or read book Radetzky written by Alan Sked and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2010-12-08 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History remembers Wellington's defeat of Napoleon, but has forgotten the role of Field Marshal Radetzky in the battles which led to Napoleon's abdication and first exile in 1814. As Chief of Staff to the allied coalition of 1813-14, Radetzky determined the shape of the most decisive campaigns of the Napoleonic Wars by creating the strategy that defeated the Corsican in Germany and then France. Neither Russia nor Prussia had been able to overcome Napoleon in battle and it took the brilliant diplomacy of Metternich and the military genius of Radetzky to ensure victory over the Emperor. In short, the Austrian contribution decisively tipped the balance against Napoleon - a fact which has always been overlooked by historians. It was Radetzky, too, at the age of eighty-two, who defeated the Italians in 1848 and 1849 and thus saved Europe once again from the prospect of international war and revolution. The wars Radetzky fought - and won - throughout his extensive military career were of the greatest possible significance in European history, yet today, he is almost forgotten - remembered only in the music of the Radetzky March, dedicated to him by Johann Strauss the elder. In this, the first biography of Radetzky to be published in English, Alan Sked paints a vivid picture of an exceptional, yet neglected commander of genius in a book which will be fascinating reading for enthusiasts of military and modern European history.

What I Saw

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Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393051674
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (516 download)

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Book Synopsis What I Saw by : Joseph Roth

Download or read book What I Saw written by Joseph Roth and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2003 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[Joseph Roth] is now recognized as one of the twentieth century's great writers." --Anthony Heilbut, Los Angeles Times Book Review

Kahn & Engelmann

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Publisher : Biblioasis International Trans
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Kahn & Engelmann by : Hans Eichner

Download or read book Kahn & Engelmann written by Hans Eichner and published by Biblioasis International Trans. This book was released on 2009 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of a Jewish family from rural Hungary and their immigration to Vienna.

Wandering Jew

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Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1910749311
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (17 download)

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Book Synopsis Wandering Jew by : Dennis Marks

Download or read book Wandering Jew written by Dennis Marks and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2016-10-18 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joseph Roth, best known as the author of the novel The Radetzky March and the nonfiction work The Wandering Jews, was one of the most seductive, disturbing, and enigmatic writers of the twentieth century. Born in 1894 in the Habsburg Empire in what is now Ukraine and dying in Paris in 1939, he was a perpetually displaced person, a traveler, a prophet, a compulsive liar, and a man who covered his tracks. Throughout the eastern borderlands of Europe, Dennis Marks explores the spiritual geography of a still-neglected master and uncovers the truth about Roth’s lost world.

The Hotel Years

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Publisher : Granta Books
ISBN 13 : 1783781297
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (837 download)

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Book Synopsis The Hotel Years by : Joseph Roth

Download or read book The Hotel Years written by Joseph Roth and published by Granta Books. This book was released on 2015-09-03 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hotel that I love like a fatherland is situated in one of the great port cities of Europe, and the heavy gold Antiqua letters in which its banal name is spelled out shining across the roofs of the gently banked houses are in my eye metal flags, metal bannerets that instead of fluttering shine out their greeting. In the 1920s and 30s, Joseph Roth travelled extensively in Europe, leading a peripatetic life living in hotels and writing about the towns through which he passed. Incisive, nostalgic, curious and sharply observed - and collected together here for the first time - his pieces paint a picture of a continent racked by change yet clinging to tradition. From the 'compulsive' exercise regime of the Albanian army, the rickety industry of the new oil capital of Galicia, and 'split and scalped' houses of Tirana forced into modernity, to the individual and idiosyncratic characters that Roth encounters in his hotel stays, these tender and quietly dazzling vignettes form a series of literary postcards written from a bygone world, creeping towards world war.

Radetzky's Marches

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Publisher : Helion
ISBN 13 : 9781909384392
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (843 download)

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Book Synopsis Radetzky's Marches by : Michael Embree

Download or read book Radetzky's Marches written by Michael Embree and published by Helion. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the spring of 1848, revolution threatened to sweep away the old order throughout Europe. In the Austrian-occupied north of Italy, newly nurtured nationalism, further fueled by economic issues, prompted open revolt in Lombardy and Venetia. The Austrian army in Italy, commanded by 82-year-old Field Marshal Radetzky, soon saw itself under further threat from the Kingdom of Sardinia-Piedmont, that of Naples, and the Papal States, as well as thousands of volunteers, all determined to rid Italy of the occupier. Seemingly under attack from all sides, the Austrian Army was forced to concentrate in the famous 'Quadrilateral', formed by the fortress cities of Peschiera, Mantua, Legnago, and Verona, losing deserters by the thousand, to prepare for the war to follow, a war that would continue into the following year. This volume narrates the remarkable tale of how one old general quite possibly saved an empire. With iron will, the great personal affection of his men, and some luck, Radetzky maintained his army, and finally defeated his opponents. Such was the impact of the 1848 campaign, that Johann Strauss the Elder wrote the 'Radetzky March', in the Field Marshal's honor! The comprehensive story of the revolts and the subsequent military campaigns is recounted here, taken from many and varied sources, including a considerable number of contemporary and first-hand accounts, as well official reports from all sides. Radetzky's Marches is profusely illustrated, and is accompanied by maps, charts, diagrams and extensive orders-of-battle.

Joseph Roth: A Life in Letters

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Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393060640
Total Pages : 585 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Joseph Roth: A Life in Letters written by Joseph Roth and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2012-01-16 with total page 585 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tumultuous life of the Austrian writer best known for "The Radetzky March" is described through letters that recall his father's and wife's mental illnesses, numerous mistresses, and travel to Paris.

The Day of Judgment

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Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374526605
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (745 download)

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Book Synopsis The Day of Judgment by : Salvatore Satta

Download or read book The Day of Judgment written by Salvatore Satta and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1987 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Understanding Joseph Roth

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Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9781570033988
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (339 download)

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Book Synopsis Understanding Joseph Roth by : Sidney Rosenfeld

Download or read book Understanding Joseph Roth written by Sidney Rosenfeld and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rosenfeld suggests that more than any other component of Roth's varied fiction, his skillful portrayals of uprootedness and the search for home explain his international appeal, which has grown in recent decades with the translation of his novels into English."--BOOK JACKET.

The Sleepwalkers

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (721 download)

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Book Synopsis The Sleepwalkers by : Hermann Broch

Download or read book The Sleepwalkers written by Hermann Broch and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Conspirators

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Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1429928468
Total Pages : 683 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Book Synopsis Conspirators by : Michael André Bernstein

Download or read book Conspirators written by Michael André Bernstein and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2005-04-01 with total page 683 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Galicia, Austria-Hungary, 1913. In the castle of a frontier town, on the border between Europe and the East, the worldly, corrupt Count-Governor Wiladowski watches helplessly while a wave of assassinations sweeps the empire, and his province. When a member of his own family is murdered, the count gives broad police powers to his spymaster, Jakob Tausk: a brilliant young Jew whose ruthless war on terror extends into every corner of the province and beyond, enlisting union organizers, financiers, aristocrats and their servants, and a young novelist and playwright, newly arrived in the Vienna of Franz Josef and Freud, hungry for literary success. In the wake of new terrorist attacks, a mysterious preacher appears in the provincial capital--one of the so-called "wonder rabbis" from the shtetls of the East-trailing a band of fanatical disciples who proclaim him the messiah. Word of the charismatic leader spreads quickly from the Jewish quarter to the castle itself, and soon Tausk finds himself serving two masters: the count and the richest man in the province, Moritz Rotenburg, who has a private interest in the wonder rabbi and whose only son has returned from university, burning for revolution, to gather disciples of his own. Moving from underground meetings and makeshift synagogues to the bedrooms of country estates and the secret high councils of the ailing thousand-year-old Habsburg Empire, Michael André Bernstein's compelling first novel evokes a densely believable world on the edge of collapse, full of the haunting suggestiveness of a fable or nightmare, and the erotic, mystical, and apocalyptic passions of an age.

The String of Pearls

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book The String of Pearls written by Joseph Roth and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While visiting Vienna, the Shah of Persia falls for a beautiful countess. The Austrian officials arrange for him to spend the night with the countess, but unbeknown to the Shah she is a prostitute who merely resembles the countess. From this night follows a chain of ruinous consequences.

Roller-Coaster

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Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0241187176
Total Pages : 704 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (411 download)

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Book Synopsis Roller-Coaster by : Ian Kershaw

Download or read book Roller-Coaster written by Ian Kershaw and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2018-08-30 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From one of Britain's most distinguished historians and the bestselling author of Hitler, this is the definitive history of a divided Europe, from the aftermath of the Second World War to the present. After the overwhelming horrors of the first half of the 20th century, described by Ian Kershaw in his previous book as having gone 'to Hell and back', the years from 1950 to 2017 brought peace and relative prosperity to most of Europe. Enormous economic improvements transformed the continent. The catastrophic era of the world wars receded into an ever more distant past, though its long shadow continued to shape mentalities. Europe was now a divided continent, living under the nuclear threat in a period intermittently fraught with anxiety. Europeans experienced a 'roller-coaster ride', both in the sense that they were flung through a series of events which threatened disaster, but also in that they were no longer in charge of their own destinies: for much of the period the USA and USSR effectively reduced Europeans to helpless figures whose fates were dictated to them by the Cold War. There were striking successes - the Soviet bloc melted away, dictatorships vanished and Germany was successfully reunited. But accelerating globalization brought new fragilities. The impact of interlocking crises after 2008 was the clearest warning to Europeans that there was no guarantee of peace and stability. In this remarkable book, Ian Kershaw has created a grand panorama of the world we live in and where it came from. Drawing on examples from all across the continent, Roller-Coaster will make us all rethink Europe and what it means to be European.

The Pasha's Concubine and Other Tales

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Pasha's Concubine and Other Tales written by Ivo Andrić and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

What I Saw

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Publisher : Granta Books
ISBN 13 : 1847082297
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book What I Saw written by Joseph Roth and published by Granta Books. This book was released on 2014-07-03 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1920, Joseph Roth, the most renowned German correspondent of his age, arrived in Berlin, the capital of the Weimar Republic. He produced a series of impressionistic and political writings that influenced an entire generation of writers, including Thomas Mann and the young Christopher Isherwood. Roth, like no other German writer of his time, ventured beyond Berlin's official veneer to the heart of the city, chronicling the lives of its forgotten inhabitants - the Jewish immigrants, the criminals, the bathhouse denizens, and the nameless dead who filled the morgues. Warning early on of the threat posed by the Nazis, Roth evoked a landscape of moral bankruptcy and debauched beauty, creating in the process an unforgettable portrait of a city.

Proxopera

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ISBN 13 : 9780957233676
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (336 download)

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Download or read book Proxopera written by Benedict Kiely and published by . This book was released on 2015-05-05 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: