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Radetzkymarsch

Joseph Roth · 1932 · Book

A sweeping, melancholic portrait of the Austro-Hungarian Empire's decline, told through three generations of a military family. Perfect for readers seeking elegiac historical fiction that captures the slow dissolution of a world.

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