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The Radetzky March
- Form
- Form Novel
- Year
- Year 1932
- Originally in
- Originally in German
- Pages
- Pages 390
A peasant soldier saves the Emperor's life by accident and is ennobled for it, and his descendants, a stern official and a hapless cavalry officer, ride the Empire's long decline toward the war that finishes them both.
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.
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